"Azure? Please open up."

"Leave me alone, princess. I don't feel like talking to you."

Luna stood by a door that led into one of the many guestrooms in the palace. She continued to knock at his door in hopes of seeing him face to face. But the pony she sought to speak with was being uncooperative and decided that it would be best not to see her at all. Luna called out to the stallion on the other side of the door. "Azure... I told you that you had to remain calm."

Azure, inside of the room, answered her through the wooden barrier that prevented the visual contact. "Why? So when that bastard starts making threats on your life, you expect me to just stand still?"

"I'm sorry." Luna whispered, leaning her head against the door.

Azure was furious over the fact that she was reluctant in his advances but bedded with Blueblood on a whim. He understood that her plan was to rid the palace of the white unicorn menace, but at the same time it was unfair that she would do something to hurt him emotionally. Azure screamed back to the princess. "For what!? Sleeping with the stallion that wanted your head on a pike? Or maybe you felt like that you just wanted to keep me around until you wanted to use me like you did him?"

Luna argued the previous statement she made in the Grand Hall earlier. "I told you that my feelings for you are much deeper than that."

"They weren't that deep when you invited him to your room. Now he's gonna be out for your head and there isn't much I can do to stop him."

Luna stood in silence over what the upset guard had said to her. Perhaps as he was dismissed, he made his way straight to here rather than stay around for the aftermath. "You don't have to."

"And why not!?" He yelled.

"Because Celestia banished him." She answered.

Azure, on the other side of the door, sighed deeply and sat himself on the bed. After a few seconds of silence, he fell on the matress and called back out to the door. "So... he's gone."

"Devoid of all power and titles. But you know what I did was for the betterment of all of Equestria."

Azure looked at the door and let his voice grow no louder than a murmur as the pain in his chest swelled. "Is the weight of my heart so light that you would carelessly throw it away in exchange of a few smiles from a nation?"

The princess in the hall cried through the door while she tried to inform him why she couldn't go as far with him as she had initially wanted. "No! I had to convince myself that this was going to work for us. I couldn't share that first time with you, otherwise... you saw what happened to Blueblood."

"And does it look like I give a damn? Hell, let me grow old and let me believe that you truly had something for me rather than this."

Luna bowed her head to the door, placing her hoof on her chest. "I understand that you are in pai-"

"Pain? I'm fucking dying in here! I need a fucking medic and there's not a single goddamn one for miles. My heart is barely beating and right now it's under a heavy-ass cinderblock. BECAUSE OF YOU!" Azure released all of his anger towards the Princess of the Night, disregarding her title and treating her as he would another mare.

"Please open up the door." She pleaded.

"No. You stay out there and you stay the hell away from me! I don't need anymore hurt than what I've already got."

"Open the door."

Azure tossed a pillow at the door. "Go away!"

"I'm not leaving until I see you."

Azure placed another pillow on his head while he screamed back to her. "I'll give you a picture, now fuck off!"

Luna knocked on the door again, this time not stopping as she spoke. "I need you. Please, open the door. I-"

Azure jumped out of the bed and banged as hard as he could, cracking the wood of the door. "Don't you fucking dare say that shit to me. I don't wanna hear that word come from your mouth."

Luna realized that being gentle was not working and decided to strengthen her resolve. Giving herself some space, she yelled at the shut-in stallion. "I order you to open this door and speak to me!"

"Fuck the order. I'm going AWOL." He shouted back to her.

"Azure."

"You can't make me open this door."

Luna turned her back to the door and pouted as she sat in front of it, leaving him no way out except through her. "Then you can't make me leave."

"Don't you have a moon to raise or something?"

"I am abandoning my duties as well." She said in response to Azure's abandonment of his orders.

Azure grew even more angry at the fact that she was using his excuse to miss out on her own duties. "You can't fucking do that!"

"I am the princess and will do what I please. And if I want to stay here until you open this door, then I will order food from here, I will sleep here, I will cleanse myself here."

The guard facehoofed and walked over to the door. "You're not making any sense."

"Love doesn't have to make sense."

Azure took a series of deep breaths and sat at the door, preventing any means of entry beside the lock, which was busted from his earlier assault on the door. With closed eyes, he calmed his to and gently asked. "Go away."

"No." She answers flatly, causing Azure to rise and face the door with tempers flared.

"WHY THE FUCK NOT!?"

"BECAUSE YOU WON'T LISTEN!" Luna screamed in her Canterlot royal voice. She remained seated as the halls still echoed with her voice, shaking much of the items placed in the halls. Once the clattering of glass and rattling of picture frames ceased, the stallion answered back to her.

"You are so stubborn. Must run in the family."

"I am. That's why I was banished for a thousand years."

"Luna." Azure sat with his back to the door as Luna remained in the same position.

"And I will stay a thousand more if it means that you would open this door for me, just for one moment."

Azure shook his head and bumped his head against the door and stared to the ceiling. "I'm gonna be in her for a while."

Luna giggled at the guard. It made her somewhat comfortable to know that he didn't treat her any differently because of what she represented. Instead, he treated her as if they were in a relationship with each other. She closed her eyes and saw that he actually had feelings for her so deep that he would abandon her if she was to do wrong to him. It signaled that he actually have an unconditional affection towards her.

"Take your time. I can wait."

The sun started to set in the little town of Ponyville. As the sky flooded with the orange and red gradient, six mares stepped off of the train and expressed their relief of being done with their long journey.

"Phew, home at last." The orange farm mare said as she and six others made their way onto the platform.

Rainbow Dash flew above, expressing her own comfort. "You can say that again. I can finally stretch my wings without anypony caring about an obscene amount of personal space."

Pinkie Pie pranced off of the train and wore a large smile on her face. "While the Gala was the worst party ever, we managed to make it the best night ever with Princess Celestia!"

Fluttershy nodded quietly as she walked along side the others. "I thought it was awfully nice of her to spend some time with us."

"Yeah. It was fun." Twilight chimed out happily.

Meanwhile, Rarity still had her mind on the stallion that she thought was the stallion of her dreams, instead turning out to be a selfish prick. Her voice remained low and settled in melancholy. "Quite the evening, I would agree."

The other mares stopped trotting and looked over to their depressed friend. Rarity distanced herself away from the others verbally as she walked through the small gathering. Spike followed her from behind, trying to make sure that nothing was bothering her.

"Rarity, you okay?"

While the fashionista looked away from her friends, Applejack knew what plagued her. "Argh! Don't tell me that ya still thinkin' bout that rude feller. Ah thought ya might have dropped 'em by now."

"It's not that simple Applejack. What I had in mind for my evening was to be swept away by the stallion I longed for, not to be some sort of doormat to be trampled on." Rarity answered without even looking to the mare that addressed her.

"You really gotta let that guy go. He was way too dumb for you!" Rainbow Dash cosigned as she hovered above the ground.

Rarity turned her eyes to the cyan pegasus and pointed at her. "Yes... But how would you feel if the Wonderbolts took you in and decided that you weren't able to fly?"

"Well that wouldn't happen because of how awesome I am." She answered cockily, wearing a smug expression on her face.

"And Twilight, what would you say if Princess Celestia decided that you were a fine student and only treated you as a pawn for whatever plan she hatches?"

The purple unicorn shook her head. "The princess doesn't act like that at all, so I wouldn't know."

"Pinkie, how would you feel if you had to stop partying because of a stallion or a family member forbade you from doing it?"

The overly-excited mare took a moment to think. "Well... I'd throw a party just to show them how fun it could be. After all, no better way to cure a grump than to give them something to smile about!"

"Applejack, how would you feel if somepony took over your business and didn't treat it as well as you and your family would?"

The cowpony rolled her eyes as she walked in front of Rarity, trying to be the voice of reason. "Ain't gonna happen cuz the Apple family business stays with the Apple family. Now Ah think ya might just wanna leave that funny business back in Canterlot, sugarcube."

Rarity looked at the five mares and shook with anger. "Doh... None of you understand what it means to be in love anyhow!"

"Ah think you're jus' overreactin'. And ya already know my story, considerin' what happened in the past."

Rarity gasped as soon as their past was brought to the present. "I thought we were over that!"

"Jus like you should be over him!" Applejack countered.

"Oh... I see now. You're asking me to forget what happened just last night. Well it would do you good to remember that our little incident took years for the both of us to get over." Rarity argued.

"That may be true, but it took me to stop bein' so stubborn and for you to stop bein' so uptight for us to forget that. We let a little somethin' like a colt get in the way of our friendship. And for years, we didn't even bother talking it out. Now we managed to talk about it and it only took us a single night to fix it. My point is that ya can't let small stuff eat away at ya."

Rarity turned her attention to the road in front of her. As she watched the sun set over the horizon, her head dropped low and her ears folded. "I've had my heart on him since I was ten years old, Applejack. I tried to work my way to Canterlot so I could see him again. He wasn't the same colt that I fell in love with eight years ago. For something that you've had your heart set on for almost half your entire life, I don't think it would be considered as 'small stuff'."

Twilight walked up to the crestfallen mare and tapped her gently. "Rarity, I think I realize what was wrong."

"You do?" She asks, looking up to the lavender mare.

Twilight nodded solemnly. "You've had a crush on a pony that you haven't seen in eight years. You've allowed yourself to become so attached to him that he found his way into your subconscious and he became your obsession. But what you haven't realized that what it was, was a love unrequited. You loved him, but maybe his heart was somewhere else."

Fluttershy stood beside Rarity and whispered to her. "I've had a crush a long time ago. But he turned out to be a big bully."

"I had a crush that I sent tons of chocolate to, but he only sent me a card." Pinkie said loudly.

"I didn't have one." Cracked Rainbow Dash, causing the others to look at her with disapproval.

"Not helpin' RD. But ya get how mine worked out." Applejack added.

"What we're all trying to say is that your crush isn't often the one that should be your choice on who you might want to spend the rest of your life with. He's just there for a season." Twilight concluded.

Applejack placed a hoof on the saddened unicorn's chin and raised it so that she could see eye-to-eye. "An' there's a reason they call 'em crushes; ya get crushed in the end."

Feeling a little better, Rarity turned her attention to the mares around her and wore a light smile. "I suppose that may be the case."

Pinkie suddenly wrapped her forelegs around the fashionista and pointed her to the direction of the town. "Come on. I know exactly what will cheer you up. Chocolate cake and French vanilla ice cream is one way to put away all your problems. My treat."

Rarity felt a bit of hope in hearing the words her friends had to say to her. "Thanks Pinkie. To all of you."

"Don't sweat it! Besides, I could use some ice cream right about now." Rainbow Dash blurted out.

"That sounds wonderful!" Fluttershy agreed.

"Count me in!" Cheered Twilight.

Pinkie took to the front of the pack and broke into a gallop as she screamed out to the others. "To Sugarcube Corner, away!"

"Now wait up, y'all!" Applejack shouted as she and the others made their way down the road.

Rarity produced a warm smile as the sun continued to set over the horizon. She came to the conclusion that this 'prince of my dreams' business was now well behind her. There was no time to wallow in the past. Her future looked as bright as the golden road before her. With a quick inhale, she eagerly pursued her friends in a dash. She took a mental note to herself as she rejoined her friends.

"I suppose it is time for me to leave this mess in the past. After all Rarity, you're a grown mare now. And grown mares do not deal in crushes."

"Azure?"

"What?"

"Princess Celestia has summoned you to her chambers for a brief discussion."

Azure lied in the bed of the room he locked himself inside of. Meanwhile, Shining Armor stood on the other side of the door instead of Luna. Though Azure couldn't help but to be suspicious of the fact that Celestia would summon him on her own accord. There had to be another reason why she would call him up. There were only two reason in mind.

"On who's behalf?"

"Her own." Shining answered quickly.

"That's bullshit." Azure quipped.

"Well it's an order, not a request. Now start moving."

"...Fine." Azure said before he rose from his bed. Following his rise, he placed on the chainmail shirt and the suit of armor and made his way to the exit. As he opened the door, Shining stood with a subtle smile on his face. That smile could only mean one thing. Being that one of his original assumptions were shot down, being that Celestia summoned him on the behalf of her little sister, it meant that this would be his final day as a guard in the palace. The two made their way down the hall, walking in silence for most of the way.

"Hey, Az."

"What?" The guard asked.

Shining chortled a bit as he thought back to the events of earlier. "I kinda had to hold my mouth closed when you cut Blueblood's horn off. I wanted to cheer so bad. You are awesome, and I hope that you'll remember that."

"Thanks. But seriously, why is Luna using her sister to get to me?" Azure asked, wanting to make sure that it was for the reason of him possibly being fired.

"Actually, Princess Celestia called you on her own. She wanted to talk to you about what you did earlier. And from her tone, it didn't sound too good."

"Oh..." Azure sighed while he looked at the captain next to him. His fear was now realized. "So... I'm getting my pink slip today. Well at least I go out with style."

"Well, were here." Shining said, as the two managed to reach the end of their walk unexpectedly.

"Yup... I guess this is it."

Shining gave his friend a hoofbump and made his way down the hall. "Stay strong and keep your head up, Az."

"Sure." The blue unicorn muttered as he faced the large white door with the sun sigil set in the center. He gulped loudly as his hoof made contact with the large wooden portal to his dismissal.

*knock knock knock*

"Enter." A mature female voice called out to him.

As he walked through the door, he noticed that there was a table set on the far end of the room. On it sat a pile of scrolls and a inked quill. It seemed that it was the paperwork for his discharge. The princess pointed him to the table as she closed the door behind him. In silence, they took their seats while the princess levitated the quill and one of the scroll before herself. The scribbling of the quill drove him to break the discomforting noise.

"Princess."

"Azure. As you know, your reckless behavior has been much to the topic of discussion around the palace." Celestia began.

"I guess I went a little too far?" He asked as she continued to scribble away at one of her scrolls.

"You just about sent yourself to the moon on this one."

"Oh boy." Said the guard in a cringe, fearing that his punishment was far worse than a dismissal.

"Though I have not called you here to relieve you."

At that moment, Azure could have sworn he heard a record scratch somewhere in his mind. "Uh... mare say what?"

Celestia dropped the scrolls and the quill, giving him her full attention. "Your decision to stand up for my sister, despite her hurting you, was one that was to be admired. I surely admired it."

"Uh... thanks?" Said the guard, uncertain as to what was going on.

"You mostly followed through on the order I have given to you. Do you remember what I said?"

Azure thought back to the night of the summer banquet, celebrating Luna's return from her banishment. "If I recall, you told me to follow Lu- I mean, Princess Luna's orders, even if they were against you."

"Correct, but I cannot help that you have failed to do one thing as you locked yourself in one of the guest rooms."

Instantly, he realized what she summoned him for. "Oh boy, here we go."

"You failed to make her happy. She stood by your room for hours on end and I ultimately had to send her to her room by force. I cannot allow my sister to remain in a hallway."

"So by summoning me, you would have me talk to her."

Celestia left her seat and made her way over to her mirror, removing her crown and the rest of her regalia. "The choice of speaking with her is solely up to you. I instructed her to stay in her room. And I made it clear that you would come speak to her when you were ready."

Ease fell on Azure's mind as he took on the knowledge that he wasn't going to be forced to speak with her. "Thanks for understanding, princess."

"Call me Celestia." She said as she placed her crown on her nightstand, next to her large bed.

Azure stuttered as he thought about addressing her on a first-name basis. "Oh... um... As you-"

"And please don't address me or my sister so formally when we are alone. You have shown that you have a personal desire to see that we are happy. So we can trust you enough to speak freely in our presence."

"We?" Azure asked with a tilt of his head.

"My sister and I. I say we because you have cheered me up when I felt down. You gave me words of wisdom and a show of comfort, something that I haven't experienced in many centuries. As for my sister, well you know what you do to her."

"But what about-"

"Blueblood was different." The ivory mare corrected. "I loved him as a mother would her own child. But don't think that he didn't try. Every moment we used to have alone, he would touch me and rub me in ways that made me... uncomfortable."

The guard could feel a bit of anger swell deep within himself, but he held it to himself as he asked the princess on her reaction to the situation. "So what did you do?"

"I distanced myself from him so that I wouldn't succumb to his advances. Though had he waited for my move, I think I may have given him a chance. Think being the key word here."

The guard gave a nod. "Gotcha."

"But when it comes to you, you make my little sister feel like a filly all over again; blind to the horrors of this world and ever smiling."

Azure stuck his chest out as he spoke proudly. "It is my personal duty, as a friend, to see everyone around me happy, but it doesn't mean I won't put my hoof up your ass if you do wrong."

"I see." Giggled the princess at the guard's profane expression.

"Sorry for the language."

"Quite alright actually. I love to hear my guards unwind in my presence. It makes me want to do the same."

"Really? Guess I shouldn't hold back as much." Azure joked.

"Yes. But I do want to ask you something."

He shook his head with a deep breath, knowing well enough what was coming. "Okay, go for it."

"Would you consider talking with Luna?"

Azure stood in silence as he thought about what to say. He was still angry over what Luna did, but he decided to be fair about it considering that she did warn him before she did anything. And more importantly, he did give her his trust. "It will take some time, but I think I could manage."

Celestia hummed to herself as the blue unicorn gave his answer. "...I always envied my little sister."

Startled from the statement, the stallion questioned his princess. "Where did that come from?"

"Personal experience." She said softly.

"Care to share?" He inquired.

"Luna, and of course Cadance, have always had guards that sought to know them on a personal level. I only had the guards that were so caught up in protocol that only one even dared to ask me for some of my time."

"But why guards? Why not a pony that was-"

"Status."

Thinking back to the fact that commoners would abuse the system through their relationship with her, he understood her reason to restrict herself to those she could see working. "Oh."

"But even he was unsatisfied with me in the end. I want to ask you something else."

Azure immediately interjected his thoughts. "I've already made it clear that you are a mare no different than others. Sure you can't have foals but that doesn't stop you from giving your love to somepony."

"Not what I was going to ask." She said, correcting him. "What I wanted to ask was this... If you and I had a relationship similar to you and Luna and I did what she was accused of, would you still be angry with me for what I did?"

"Yeah. No question." He said with a shrug.

"So you would treat me like I was somepony else? No titles, no formalities, just equine interaction."

"You know it."

"So if I asked you to look at me?"

"Ignore the hell out of you." He joked.

"If I knocked on your door?"

"I'd tell you to shut the hell up."

The princess stifled a laugh at the guard's crude sense of humor. "If I was sincere about my apology and wanted a hug."

"Then I would hug you back. Is this going somewhere?" He asked, still playing around.

"No. I was just curious as to how you could disregard status and let your personal feelings take over. I guess you could say that I've missed that kind of interaction."

"So Blueblood didn't do any of that for you?" He asked, to which the princess responded with solid no.

"Blueblood wasn't sincere in his dealings, as I have now come to realize. You are... different."

Azure continued to laugh as he made fun of the princess. "If I wasn't dumb, then I would say that you're starting to like me."

Celestia quietly walked over to him and stood, not saying anything. He blinked as she seemingly towered above him. He started to back away but she held him in place using her magic. Letting her hooves close in around him, she kisses him on the forehead. His cheeks flooded with red as the princess cupped his face close to hers. Finally, she admitted her truth.

"As a companion, yes. Romantic interest... I may not know. But you belong to Luna, so I cannot pursue you unless you seek me first."

For the most part, Azure was rendered speechless. His legs shook at the revelation of what she told him. Princess Celestia, the ruler of all of Equestria, the one who moves the sun, had feelings for him. He didn't think that it was possible. He may have joked about it once or twice back in high school, but now it was for real. She was interested and there he was, sitting in her hooves. He didn't know what to say.

"Oh... wow... I didn't... know."

Realizing that she may have been in the wrong, she released the guard and made her way to the opposite side of the room, distancing herself from him. "Forget I said that. I was misplaced and started to speak without consulting to rational thought."

"No. You're... fine." He said, trying to comfort the rejected princess. "I just didn't expect you to have an interest."

Celestia quickly made her way to the door and ushered him into the hall. "Then let us leave our conversation here. Now go... Luna awaits you next door."

Azure, still in shock, bids his superior farewell. "Okay... See you later, princess."

"Celestia." She reiterated, wanting him to address her in a personal manner. "As my friend, I wish you to call me by that over my title."

"Sure. I'll go speak with Luna now."

As the guard made his way outside to the other door, she tugged against him with her magic. "Azure-"

"I won't tell her anything. That's up to you." He said, returning the favor of him speaking to Luna. He didn't want to disclose what she had said to him, as it was a personal matter between just the two of them. There was no need to bring dissonance into their relationship.

As the door closed behind him, Celestia stood at the doorway. She quietly hoped that he would come back to speak with her. Just for a minute. It was all she wanted. "I wonder what it would be if you were my guard instead. Would you look after me like you did my younger sister?"

She walked over to her nightstand, collecting her regalia and wearing them once more.

"Of course not. You're not my guard. Why should it matter?"

Her eyes fell to the floor as she thought about what she really wanted to do. Her reason for summoning him was originally to show him gratitude for revealing that Blueblood was more or less interested in his own pursuits over those of others around him. But instead of thanking him, she ended up confessing something that could cause a disruption in her sister's relationship with him. She felt even more guilty than before.

"Why should I worry about a stallion who doesn't want me?"

"Luna... it's me."

"So you've come to talk?"

"Yeah. I caved."

The door clicked and moaned like a mighty giant as the Princess of the Night stood in her doorway, welcoming the stallion inside. When he entered, he noticed that much of the room was in disarray. Sheets lied in piles and pillows were thrown all over the room. Some of the pillows even had their stuffing beat out of them. It was obvious something had made her angry or something was getting to her. He stared in silence while Luna was the first to speak.

"I am to assume that my sister spoke with you, yes?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

Luna sat on her disorganized bed as she signaled for him to come over. "So do you want to talk about how you feel?"

He was still upset, though not as much as he was in shock over what Celestia spoke with him just across the wall. And that was something he already had a growing discomfort with. "Honestly, I don't want to. Can we talk about something else?"

"You know I didn't mean to hurt you."

"I know. You warned me. A vague warning, but it was a warning nonetheless."

Luna still didn't have the courage to look him in the eyes as she sat next to him. She shuffled her hooves as her question left her lips. "Should I have told you about it before I did what I did?"

"Why? I'd be more pissed at you than I am now." Azure states, looking away from her as well.

"You could have talked me out of it."

"Yeah, but you asked me to trust you. So I did. I just didn't expect trust to hurt."

Luna knew that his anger with her was something fierce for him to express it in the form of a violent act against the ousted prince. She felt like there was no way he could see her the same as he did before. "I don't expect you to forgive me for what I did."

Azure sighed as he remembered his promise to make her smile. He was still her guardian after all, and if his princess wanted to be forgiven, then he would. But there was no way that he would be able to move on like nothing had happened. He swallowed his pride and placed himself on the high road. "It's hard to forget, but forgiving is a little easier. I think I could pull it off."

Luna felt a painful impact hit her heart as he told her that he would forgive her. She anticipated anger, but in the end she got peace. She prepared herself for conflict, yet there was none to be had. She stood from her bed and screamed at the stallion with all of her strength. "WHY!?"

"What's wrong?" Asked a startled and mortified Azure, confused as to why she would be so angry.

Her guilt became too much for her to bear. She started to take to her pillows and toss them across the room as she tried to avoid eye contact with the guard. "I betrayed you. You had every right to disobey my request earlier. I deserve to be shunned and to be called out for what I did to you!"

"You sound like you want me to punish you."

"I DO!"

"Why?" He questions her, trying to walk up to her. She refuses him with a shove, not allowing him to get close.

"Because I hurt you. I betrayed your trust and I betrayed my own heart for what I did."

The guard waived off her logic as he continued to pursue her. "You're getting punished enough on your own. I don't need to do anything at this point."

"I deserve it. Why can't you see that?"

"You're letting your guilt drive you insane. I forgive you."

"No you don't."

"Luna. Just listen to me."

"Lies."

Azure walks in front of Luna, causing her to turn her head away from him. "Look at me."

"I can't." She answered, clenching her eyes shut so that she would be able to see his face.

"Then I'll make you." He says, closing in on her.

"You won't."

Luna felt a force turn her head forward and soon after, she felt the foreign sensation of a pair of lips assaulting hers. Her eyes spring open as she looks at the smaller stallion who dared to violate her without her consent. She shook with fear over the madness that was him. He opened his eyes and stood, facing her with his large green eyes.

"Looks like I just did."

Luna blushed and broke the eye contact that they briefly established between one another. "You're intolerable."

"But you love it." He whispered playfully.

Luna couldn't take him not punishing her any longer. She couldn't accept that he refused to scream and yell at her like he did earlier. At the very least, it made her feel happy that he was angry at her. A conundrum of emotions boiled and stirred in her mind while she tried to process everything she put in. Eventually everything inside of her grew as hot as molten steel. Her bearings that held the constructs of her mind together started to give way. It all creaked and groaned until something inside of her snapped.

"Take it off, Azure."

"What are you-" Azure was cut off by the familiar feeling of her magic surrounding his body, only this time he was violently slammed into the bed, so hard that he heard something crack under the pressure of his descent. He lied with an exposed belly as she leapt on top of him, pulling madly at the latch that held his armor together. He finally caught the hint on what she was pertaining to as she screamed to the top of her lungs, unleashing her Canterlot royal voice.

"TAKE IT OFF!"

"Trying." He said, hastily trying to undo the latchings of the breastplate and his armor.

"You have until the count of three before I take you as you are." She stressed as she panted like a wild chimera, affixed to it's prey.

He unlatched the belt that held him to the armor, setting himself free of the clumsy attire.

"One... two..."

He felt her hooves press into him painfully as he did his best to remove his chain-link shirt. But as she applied more pressure on him, he found that it was to be a daunting challenge. "Arrrgh... Damn chainmail."

Luna lit her horn and held his forelegs to his chest as she roared like a savage lion. He laid helpless as she climbed further up his body, lustfully drooling at the muscular stallion below her. Her breath shook as she spoke. "Time's up."

"Not even giving me a chance to get this shirt off of me, are you?" He asked.

"I gave you enough time to disrobe on the way here." She said as she straddled his muzzle, showing him her winking sex. Her marehood glistened before him as his tongue slithered out of his mouth. As she was still out of reach, he mocked her some more before she would force him to feast on her folds.

"So I guess my game is sloppy seconds?"

Luna squeaked as her body ran cold with the icy desire to plunge her haunches onto his face. "I would prefer the term 'purification'. Now clean me."

Azure could say nothing else as he found himself silenced by the aroma of her dripping arousal telling him to engorge upon her. Her eyes shined with a spark as his tongue tasted the winking mound of her sex. She sank herself on him, forcing him to use his entire mouth to please her.

As he continued to French-kiss her lower lips, she moaned with a sudden electric jolt running across her body. His tongue continued to go deeper while her wings started to unfurl on their own accord. She held the soldier to his battle with a strong hoof, guiding him to where his next assault would take place.

To perform the same act, expecting a different result was often called insanity. Luna was clearly going headlong into that territory as she relentlessly forced her stallion to clean her every muscle. Luna bent over him as the sensation of his tongue battering against her drove to the brink of madness. Yet in all, she has clearly passed the breaking point. Her madness began as soon as his lips met with hers for the first time.

Being careful to not break his neck, she rode him as she would a carousel. Her wings pulsed with the need to be attended to. She pulled her left wing to her mouth and started to tease herself by licking her wing tip. Greedily sucking on the feathers, she moaned into the curtain of her own body while she started to shake with pleasure.

Her teasings and his ministrations became too much for her to bear in a single setting. Her much needed orgasm soon washed over her as well as the face of the stallion below her. Her juices drenched his face and her hips fell into spasm while he savored the taste of his princess.

"Do I taste good?" She asked shakily, recovering from her intense orgasm.

"Since you wanna know..."

With a spark of his horn, he levitated the princess off of him and rose to meet her. His tongue still dampened by his saliva and her own fluids crashed through her lips and assaulting her tongue. His organ assaulted her mouth, causing her to shudder in fear of the monster she has encountered.

Once his and her lips separated, she threw him off of the bed using her own physical strength. He wrestled her for dominance and succeeded to mount her. His breaths grew needy and pleading as the princess' wing spread wide open and she uttered her very first royal decree to her guard in over a thousand years.

"Fuck me!" She screamed in a painful voice.

"NOW WE'RE TALKING!" He shouted as his throbbing stallionhood pressed against her moist folds, teasing her.

"No words. Talk is counterproductive in this process." She whispered as their breaths started to fall in sync. He aligned himself to enter into her clingy passage and prodded her gently, eliciting a powerful cry that many in the castle could hear. Azure pressed himself into her with a single plunge, bottoming out into her slick inner-walls.

"Then shut up and let me work."

"Ahhh~ Azure..."

Meanwhile in the room next door, another princess had begun to receive her fill of pleasure. She pressed her head into her pillows as her ivory hoof rubbed softly against her moist, winking mound. Celestia bit into her sheets as she tried to keep quiet. Her enjoyment of the performance next door was too much for her to merely sit through, considering the stallion who her sister was with.

"I envy you, Luna. *gasp* You have his attention... and here I am... suffering to the sounds of your activities with him."

Luna's moans pierce the walls of the room, causing Celestia to further imagine herself being the beneficiary of his advances. Her hoof softly rubs the outer edges of her lips, the lips that no stallion has dared himself to touch or see for over eight centuries. Her lack of attention, her unused skill, the fiery desire to be filled by a stallion's cock, now rekindled and burned as her lust carried her towards the thought of committing the ultimate sin; sin of stealing what was not hers and what belonged to her younger sister.

"Azure..."

Luna's cries have now been reduced to actual calls of distress. Not out of spite, but of desire. Her hips push back into his incoming thrusts. She squeezes him for everything he as as he exits, but allows him to enter with ease. Her control is precise as his aim is true, kissing the very inner depths of the fleshy halls. He kisses her inside as she cries tears of long-endured pain on the outside.

A thousand years without the touch of a stallion, and now she allowed this stallion to know her cries. She wants him to see how bad her drought has been for her. Her breath, in conjunction with his, begins to fog the mirrors and windows of the room. His grunts are primal as her squeaks are delicate. His strength grows enough to break her as his thrusts batter against her.

Luna takes appreciation to his endowment, though he has not enough to reach her with a simple entry, his increased force had managed to drive himself into her deepest parts. He has become so forceful that the bed she leaned against has now slid a considerable two meters in distance.

There were no words between them. They allowed their actions to become their words. Luna could no longer support her own weight and faltered to the ground below. But as soon as she fell, Azure expressed his displeasure by giving her a firm smack on her voluptuous cheeks of her flanks. A slight ripple formed across as the shockwave of the impact caused it to spread throughout her body. And like an obedient servant, her ass was raised for him to take once more. A primordial affair that the two have begun to master.

"Azure, surely I am worthy of your taste. Will you not taste what I have to offer?"

Celestia spread her hind legs in front of her mirror as lied in her bed. Her wings pulled apart her tender folds, abused from the denied orgasms she inflicted upon herself out of fear that she would finish before him. Her pink walls showed her versatility to please, yet her loneliness caused her to settle with the comfort of her own hooves. As her wings continued to pry away at her lower lips, the lewd display she gave to herself fueled her desire to continue.

Her ivory hoof, now soaked beyond comprehension, was her only source of pleasure while her fantasy took place next door. She knew what she was imagining was wrong to her little sister, but the pain of being alone had caused her to toss all care to the wind. Her moment was now and at that moment, she wanted a meaty stallion cock to fill her until she could no longer breathe. Screaming into her pillow, she called out to the instrument of her destruction.

"AZURE!"

If there was a such thing as madness beyond the bounds of equine capability, Luna has ascended past it. Her cries had now made way for noisy laughter. Her mind was broken as she felt the sensation of her stallion's tongue running up and down the length of her horn. His additional punishments started to become too much of a burden. So much that she transcended into a laughing fit while her guardian continued to fuck her brains out.

"Aaaagaaaaha haa haaangh"

Her words were reduced to unintelligent banter. The only words that she could speak out clearly was the words 'fuck' and 'cum'. Her body since long shut off any registry of fatigue and pain. Their session now lasted a full fourty-five minutes. The sun had already set beyond the horizon and it was far past her time to raise the moon.

But she couldn't focus, as her attention was more placed into obtaining her seventh orgasm for the night. Azure grunted harshly as he felt his climax approach him. He entered and exited her with a slimy coat of her cum and his secretions. She laid on the ground laughing with her face buried into the carpet as his thrusts grew erratic and without rhythm or form. He wouldn't last long.

Luna had become like a dog. She whimpered when she wanted him inside, she barked when she wanted him out. But now she started to howl. Her time was close.

Celestia ground her hips into her hoof as she felt the final time she could reach her peak. She cried out for her guard to finish. Celestia started to scream past her pillow now.

"Azure... Azure... AZURE!!!"

Luna felt her entire body go numb as she howled to the balcony. The night sky filled with an assortment of colors as her final orgasm crushed every last fiber of her being. Her horn glowed warmly with a blue light building from the base of her horn to the tip. Eventually it peaked to the point where she released herself in a explosion of her magical residue.

Azure gave a powerful thrust and topped her off as his hot streams of cum gushed into her weary body. He panted harshly, trying to regain some oxygen that he lost. In the meantime, he saw the beautiful yet exotic night that the two of them have managed to create. Luna fell with a loud thud to the ground.

"Ah... ha... ahhh..... shit... Luna, you okay?" The proud stallion asked to his princess.

"Haaaon hwo hweeez." She howls out, asking for a second round.

"Damn! Didn't we... just finish!?" The guard pants out while the princess moves an eye to him.

Luna responded by raising her body off of the ground and greedily leaching herself to the retreating stallionhood of Azure, hoping to get a second round going. The soreness of his previous session had started to set in as her services started to become a mix of pain and pleasure. She removed her lips from the refilled shaft and looked up to him as she whispered to him three words.

"Serve your princess."

"Sister... What am I doing? What is going on? I haven't done anything like this in over eight hundred years and now I'm visualizing myself taking what is yours."

Celestia lied in her bed as she looked at the marecum drenched hoof before her. Her creamy aftermath slowly drooled off of her as she recovered from the intense orgasm that was induced by the action next door. The ivory colored alacorn mare stared at the mirror and started to feel shame for what she had become. She knew that she couldn't take away what belonged to her younger sister. There had to be only one solution.

"I have to distance myself from Azure. If I don't... Then I'll really regret what transpires next."

Meanwhile outside, a third party had managed to pay witness to the little show that the elder princess had managed to put on in the comfort of her own room. An odd creature stared as he floated on a cloud in the distance. As he watched the mare, he picked off a piece of the cloud and ate it.

"Well, it looks like poor, little Celestia has a bit of a relationship issue."

The strange creature started to think of a plan that would at least be somewhat similar to a soap opera. He wanted drama, he wanted suspense, he wanted betrayal. More than anything, he wanted these seeds of dissonance between the two sisters to cause a rift between them.

After all... What was the fun of being orderly when you could turn the world on it's head and continue ice skating on a dirt road?

"I suppose that won't be too bad if I... give her a push."

Author's Note

DUM DUM DUM! You all know who that is.

Behold, a new challenger comes. And this time, he likes his glass warm and his chocolate combustible.