My Little Pony: Moonbound

The Ragnarok had come for Luna, the end of the world as she heard the high pitched singing of the birds outside as well as the feeling of a searing rod shoved into her eyes from the bright light of the day. Why did she wake up you say? The sound of clanging in the kitchen disturbed the lunar princess from her sleep. Luckily though, the scent of why there was such noise made her stir in curiosity; it was the gorgeous smell of coffee. The bane of all hangovers.

"And just a bit of cinnamon and apples," Twilight said as she poured cinnamon and apple slices into the pot in front of her, humming softly to herself while swaying her tail softly.

"Twilight, where is the beautiful bane of our headache?" Luna called out to the unicorn preparing what was probably the intended breakfast, "We woke up to the scent."

Twilight turned around and smiled smugly at the princess whom suffered from her own stupidity, "I figured that hangover would be hitting you pretty hard. I brewed the coffee extra strong for you, so drink up. There's also some oatmeal on the stove, almost ready to be eaten for breakfast."

"Oatmeal...? Isn't that the food that commoners eat during the wee hours of the morning?" Luna asked while pouring her a mug of coffee.

"Oh boy..." Twilight laughed softly at Luna's snide remark, obviously not meant to be as condescending as it sounded, "You really need to try this stuff before you judge it."

"No offense, but we doubt that such a simple food could touch our refined taste, Twilight," Luna said and laughed softly about the Unicorn's attempt to convince her that such a simple thing could prove to taste good.

"Oh really?" Twilight said, having a big grin form on her face before levitating two bowls from her cabinet and pouring oatmeal into them, "We shall see."

. . . . . .

Luna had never eaten her words so hard, or rather eaten her words along with 6 servings of what she formerly had seen as 'commoner food'. She wandered the small town of Ponyville, her horrid hangover nursed from warm food, black coffee, and a bit of Twilight's magic. Everything that has happened here in this town seemed to genuinely surprise her; maybe her sister was onto something when it comes to spending time with the commoners.

"Princess, I must say that I'd hate to say this, but I promised Rarity that I would watch the Cutie Mark Crusaders today," Twilight said with a slight exasperated look, obviously dreading watching the three fillies to some small extent, realizing that they were a handful.

Luna was taken aback at Twilight's words, almost recoiling in fear, "The crusaders of the cutie marked!?" She looked around nervously, "How is this town not purged of all with cutie marks?!"

Twilight stifled her laugh at Luna's blatant ignorance to history, but she understood and explained the situation to the princess, "Oh, Princess Luna, the Cutie Mark Crusaders had not existed for nearly 900 years; I was referring to three young fillies that live here in Ponyville who are trying to find out what their cutie mark is destined to be."

Luna paused, keeping a slightly freaked out look on her face before returning her face back to normal, nodding, "We understand now; but yes, that should be perfectly fine. We would find it... fun?... to actually watch over these Crusaders with you and assist them with their hunt for their cutie mark."

Twilight nodded gently towards the princess, stifling a bit of a giggle from how awkward her highness worded things, "I think you'll love them; just know that they're pretty energetic though. Expect a really busy night."

. . . . . .

"Princess Luna! Princess Luna!" Sweetie Belle said happily while tugging on her leg, wanting to take her one direction while Applebloom tugged on her other leg and scootaloo tugging on her tail.

"Come on Princess, come help me get my cutie mark!" Applebloom called happily to the princess.

"No, you should help me!" Scootaloo retorted happily, trying to pull the princess a different direction.

"Girls! She can't help you with every little thing tonight! You have been bugging her all day and she has barely had a second for herself!" Twilight scolded the three fillies, causing them all to simultaneously releasing the lunar princess from their snare, "Now, how about we actually go do something not pertaining to your cutie marks. How about we go swimming?"

"Swimmin'?" Applebloom said with a raised eyebrow and tilted head, "But it's almost dark... Isn't it true that you turn back into Nightmare Moon during the full moon?"

"I.." Luna started, but was cut off by Scootaloo.

"Do you become all evil and stuff again when you do?" She asked cheerfully, unaware of just how horrible her words were.

"Girls! Leave her alone!" Twilight shouted at them this time, rather than just a simple scold, "Let's just go swimming at the lake, girls."

"I want to!" Twilight called through Twilight's shout, "I think swimming at night would be fun!"

"Maybe we'll get our swimming cutie marks too!" Scootaloo turned her attitude around after hearing her friend say she was okay with it, "Who knows, it just might be our talent!"

. . . . . .

The three fillies were already at the lake, playing in the shallow beaches of the water while Twilight and Luna walked down the rough cobblestone road towards the dock. Luna watched the sunset as the two ponies walked, "I have to raise the moon soon."

Night has been so much prettier after Luna had returned; sure Celestia could raise the moon and stars, but she never really could make them shine like Luna could. In fact, it had become a common past time of Twilight to chart the differences in Celestia's night and Luna's. So far she noticed that Celestia hadn't raised nearly 87 constellations in the night sky that Luna makes a point to do. It was genuinely impressive to the unicorn about how much work actually went into controlling the day and night cycle. No matter how she looked at it, in the old days it was controlled by tens of dozens of unicorns and yet these two princesses control it all.

"This will be the first time you'll see me raise the moon isn't it?" Luna said with a soft smile, "I want to make it extra beautiful since the last time I did it was sloppy from my being a tad tipsy."

"A tad?" Twilight said with a raised eyebrow and a sly grin, "You thought Rarity was your long lost pet lunar moth."

Luna blushed slightly but shook her head, "I don't seem to recall that." She said with a nervous tone in her voice, trying to forget that embarrassing moment.

"I recall one of those constellations being a perfect image of your own face saying 'Luna was Here' underneath it," Twilight said with a laugh, "You really can't hold your alcohol, Princess."

"Well, in all fairness, it's been over a thousand years since my last drink," Luna said with a slightly defensive tone in her tone.

Twilight paused as they sat down on the dock next to the water, "I just realized... You aren't referring to yourself in the royal 'we'. That's pretty rare of you, Princess."

Luna's cheeks tinted a little red at her words, not even catching her friendly demeanor herself, "Y..Yeah.. You're right; I... We... weren't even realizing it when we talked to you. It's quite embarrassing of us." She spoke with her 'royal' tone once again before watching the sun fully set, "Looks like it's time for us to do what we do best."

Her eyes turned solid white as her horn shined with a midnight blue aura, extending the aura from her horn up into the sky, creating a shock wave from it that placed beautiful stars all throughout the dark sky, following by the full moon showing itself over the horizon, illuminating the landscape with its loving glow.

"Luna... it's gorgeous..." Twilight mumbled as she stared in awe at the exceptionally beautiful night; it was almost as if Luna was trying her hardest to impress her subjects that were watching her raise the night sky.

"Woah! I want to do that!" Applebloom shouted enviously of the princess, "Teach me, teach me, teach me!"

"But Applebloom, you need to have unicorn magic to do that, right Princess?" Sweetie Belle asked her Luna with an excited glance.

Luna giggled softly at the fillies conversation but nodded at the unicorn filly, "We might just teach you when you are older-"

SPLASH!!!

Into the water goes the lunar princess and Twilight, being drenched in the water while looking up at the orange coated pegasus that was laughing as hard as she possibly could, "You should see the look on your faces!"

"Why you little!" Twilight said playfully as her horn glowed purple and picked Scootaloo up, dropping her off into the water, "Go you!"

"Gah!" She squealed as she was soaked in the water, readying herself to get revenge onto the purple unicorn before a loud bugle was heard.

A large stallion stood on the dock with a group of soldiers behind him as he bowed to the princess, looking at her through his red mane, his expression almost immediately broke the humor in the previous situation.

Luna climbed up onto the dock and looked at the soldier with a serious look in her eyes once more, "Explain yourself, soldier. Our sister had ordered that we were not to be disturbed unless absolutely necessary."

He stood up and nodded at the princess, "This message is from your sister, and it is urgent. She wants to see both you and Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot as soon as possible."

In the background on the carriages sat injured ponies with bandages all over their body; showing just how serious this might actually be. Luna nodded at the soldier in confirmation, "As you were, soldier."