Princess Luna's Desire

Luna’s Desire

I was alone in the palace one morning. Celestia was away tending to “important matters” with Twilight Sparkle- her favourite student. I thought I knew what kind of “matter” these were also… My sister liked to skive!

Either way I was delighted to have the palace to myself. Tonight was Nightmare Night and I should have been sleeping, but I knew that there was far too much exploring to be done.

I rushed into my sister’s room (which was obviously my first port of call) and rifled through her things, being sure to put everything back where I’d found it.

I found photo albums, books on magic, jewellery and much more. None of it really stood out to me, disappointingly. I’d hoped that since I’d been away she would at least have collected some interesting new things for me to play with. And what about her secrets? I knew so little about my elder sister nowadays.

I leapt onto her bed and bounced up and down like a little filly. I giggled to myself. All those years of punishment spent had taken their toll. But, I was free now.

I bounced on the bed until I ran out of breath, flopping down and accidentally knocking a book off the bedside table.

‘Oops…’

I got up to replace it and that was when I noticed that it was a dictionary… What would my sister be doing with a dictionary beside her bed? Was she really so determined to learn every word in the equestrian language?

I chuckled, picking it up and leafing through the pages… just an ordinary dictionary… My sister had a problem!

Just when I was about to put the book back, a small piece of parchment fell out. I took a moment to observe it, dropping the book on the bed.

It was completely blank other than one simple word written in black ink… “Fun”. I raised an eyebrow suspiciously.

‘Fun?’ I said aloud. What was this? What did it mean? Dictionaries weren’t fun…

I couldn’t figure it out and with a shrug I carefully tucked the parchment back into the book and put everything back where I’d found it.

Next I attacked Celestia’s wardrobe. She would surely have some interesting things hidden away in there! I knew exactly where to look too. I pulled on the base of the wardrobe and sure enough it moved and I opened the secret compartment. I squealed in delight. She never changed!

I rummaged through some foreign looking objects and some strange looking magazines… There was nothing else…

‘Well that’s boring!’ I exclaimed to myself. ‘What are all these things anyway?’

I levitated a few of the strange objects into the air and examined them. They were all similar in shape, but varied in colour and size.

One of them looked a bit like a banana. I sniffed it. It didn’t smell like a banana; it smelt… weird… I tossed it aside along with the others and examined some green ones that were all different shapes- some with nobbles and bobbles and others that were just exceedingly unusual shapes.

I dropped them in the end, failing to see the purpose in any of them and picked up one that seemed to have a button on it. I pushed it expecting to finally learn what these things were, but the mystery only deepened. I watched it vibrate in the air.

‘Is that it?’ I complained. ‘What in the hay would you use one of these for?!’

I replaced them all, frustrated and instead took a magazine.

What I saw only confused me further. All through these magazines were pictures of various parts of the pony anatomy. Most of them were pony rumps and private parts I chose to dismiss.

What was all this about? I knew for a fact that Celestia was still using this secret compartment, but all these things were completely useless and boring!

In the end I grew bored of snooping round Celestia’s chambers. It was obvious that she no longer knew how to have fun and so I decided to just go and find something to eat.