Sunset Shimmer: The Alicorn, the Clopping and the Pregnancy

Luna shifted her balance uncomfortably. “Twilight, I am not sure this is appropriate…”

Twilight had her coronation dress on, creased and roughed in places due to how hastily she had put it on. A few parts of her mane stuck out at odd angles. A peculiar aroma hung around her face.

The third occupant of the room tapped her boot on the floor impatiently. “Come on, if Princess Celestia isn’t in a good mood, then I see no reason why you can’t do royal duties in her place.”

Luna looked at Sunset Shimmer doubtfully. “That may be so, but...”

“Is this about the title? The alternative was Princess of Sex, and since Cadance is off wherever as the Crystal Princess, I don’t see why I can’t be the new and improved Princess of Love.” Sunset had ‘magicked’ a recreation of her last Fall Formal dress, with more gold and white trimming to suit her new theme. In her hands sat a tiara, which looked suspiciously like the Element of Magic, only with Sunset’s mark as the centrepiece.

There was a sigh from the front. “Very well.” Luna lifted the tiara out of Sunset’s hands with her magic. “With the power of the Moon invested in me, by the ancient magic of Equestria, and my moody sister...” She paused as Twilight yawned., “Twilight Sparkle! I cannot say I am happy about doing this, so the least you could do is pay attention!”

Twilight snapped out of her yawn. Luna’s outburst was quite unlike her. It certainly worked in getting her attention. “Yes Luna! Sorry…” She looked back over her shoulder at the painfully empty room. It was a faint hope of hers that Sunset would get a proper return to Equestria, instead of being crowned as a completely made up ruler with no audience at all. Is our wedding going to be like this as well?

“By the power invested in me, I officially crown you, Sunset Shimmer, as the Princess…” Luna swallowed. She was obviously apprehensive. “As a Princess.” The crown came to rest on Sunset’s head, glowing brightly for a moment. “I’m sorry, but I do not like treating this event so casually. You may return to Ponyville for a few days while I try to discuss this with my sister. If and when we decide on a date for your proper inauguration, I will contact you by letter.”

Sunset nudged Twilight teasingly. “I’m fine with that. In the meantime, do I get to order ponies to enjoy themselves?” The disapproving stare from Luna did little to discourage her. “Oh I get it, this is a training period. And Twilight can teach me!”

There was a groan from lower down. “Sunset. I still know barely anything about being a Princess. I was actually hoping that Celestia would give me more guidance, but now that’s out of the question, I’m lost! Isn’t there a saying about ‘blind leading the blind’?” Luna departed at that moment, making Twilight wince at being left with even less support. “Sunny, I really wanted to get started on restoring the castle. And I’m happy to spend time with you. I just can’t spend every single waking moment entertaining your… activities.”

The hall was drearily silent for quite some time. Sunset eventually sat down, after reverting her clothes back to her typically casual appearance. Her eyes settled on the rich red carpet as she idly picked at a bit of fluff, the sound of tiny red threads breaking over her nails unusually loud. “Do you think Celestia is going to take the crown back? She still hasn’t said a single word to me yet.”

Twilight looked away, uncertain. The speed at which Sunset could go from childish excitement to serious pondering was unsettling at best. “I won’t let her. Luna’s right, she’s been in a very strange mood lately. And if I have to use that as a reason to stop her, then I will.” She hated the very idea behind what she was saying. Not once had she ever considered defying the wishes of her lifelong tutor. And now, at the time when she needed her help most, she potentially had to go against her instead. Trapping Sunset in the middle of that wasn’t fair at all.

“Well, if it comes to that…” Sunset wiped a tear off her face. “At least I got to be a Princess for a few days.” Her trembling laugh broke the silence, growing faint as she returned to her feet. “Now, I believe you were saying something about restoring that castle…”

*

All of Ponyville gathered around as the sky chariot came in to land again. Sunset was filing her nails, while Twilight studied a book titled Interior Decoration for Pony Princesses. The sheer disappointment of the crowd was expressed in a rather disorderly sigh. Most likely, they had all been hoping for a repeat of the previous arrival.

“Whatever happened to the smoochy-kissy arrivals?” Pinkie Pie bounced out of the crowd to pine at the chariot. Eyes wide, her lip trembled as she pulled the biggest look of pleading feasibly possible, even for her.

Twilight flicked to the next page. “That was a one-off incident, that won’t ever happen again. Right Sunny?” The book closed with a loud thud, “Now, I’m off to the Everfree Forest for a while,. I’d like to continue planning out those renovations we discussed before. Could you please ask the girls to assemble somewhere for when I get back?”

There was a shuffle from the chariot. Sunset moved around to sit on its edge, looking at Twilight with mild curiosity. “And you said you barely know how to be a Princess. You’re already more detached than Luna.” She didn’t even flinch as Twilight glared back at her.

After a while, Twilight finally turned back around to Pinkie Pie. “Tell them I’ll be at Sugarcube corner in an hour or two. And if Spike asks, tell him that he’s got the day off. I just need a bit of time alone.” Her heart sank slightly as Pinkie Pie bounced away. She couldn’t burden them with her concerns about Celestia, and Sunset.

Sunset poked her ear for attention. “Was that alone-alone, or ‘alone with Sunset but I don’t want to give anyone ideas’ alone?” She followed Twilight as she began walking towards the nearest path into the Everfree forest. “I’ve got wings and magic too, surely there’s something I can do. And it doesn’t even have to be sex related!”

“Just…” Twilight stopped to glare at her again. She shuddered as Sunset stared back at her. “It’s been a stressful week. I’m fine with you helping out with this project, it’s too big for one pony alone. But… I’d rather that we just work away from each other for a while. Please?” Her whole body cringed as Sunset’s arms dropped to her sides. She didn’t want to say it, but she couldn’t go on much longer with the constant silliness.

Sunset gave a disheartened shrug as she headed off in the direction of the castle. “Sure, why not. It’s not like we could have had a lot of fun exploring all those nifty traps and such. Let’s just make it a serious trip.”

*

A column of dust floated around Twilight, illuminated by the brand new hole in the castle library ceiling., Several bits of rubble piled around her in a neat ring. Faint trails of purple wafted from the tip of her horn. Her left eye twitched. “It’s okay Twilight. These things happen in a castle that is ready to collapse in on itself…” She could barely move, every hair on her body upright as the back of her head continued to throb painfully. “Owww…”

Across the castle, a hum filled the great dining hall. Sunset had several dusters hovering around the room, each gliding around to match a tune she was poorly repeating. Dust fell from everywhere: Paintings, chandeliers, candles, mantles, drapes. Even the bust of a pre-Classical unicorn bore the grime of years and years of neglect.

The dusters floated down to rest in a neat row on a small table. “That’s better!” Already, she could see a big difference in the room. It looked brighter, and far more colourful than before. A few cracks appeared in the ceiling. Shortly afterward, a dirty old bed fell right through, completely undoing her efforts to dust. The entire room was left in a bleak state once more.

Sunset hummed and rolled the dusters out of the way. “Well, I guess I can have some fun with this then.” She reached around to the zip on her dress, pulling it down enough to leave a small gap between the zipper and the clasp. Her left hand cupped around the hole, while her right gave a sharp click. Green magic flowed out of the hole for a moment, materializing into a red-gold tail.

She swished it up to where she could get a good look at it. It was rather pleasing to have a tail again, given she only had one in the past three years for a few minutes at most. And it felt just as real in her hands now as it ever had. “I bet Twilight’s going to be dribbling more stuff from under her own tail when she sees this.” Without hesitation, she backed up towards the wall and began flicking her tail at the dado rail. White dust flew in all directions, most catching in the fine gold curls.

The rest of the room she resorted to using a vacuum spell on. In a few mere seconds, every single speck of dust, apart from the ones on the dado rail, was sucked away into a tiny ball that settled on the ground once it was done. The resulting gleam on every surface was dazzling. Sunset continued to softly shake her tail against the wall while her tail flicked about. “The bathtub’s going to be next, isn’t it?”

Her eyes watched the fragile ceiling above while she cleaned her tail of dust. Nothing fell through, to her relief. Her arms rested across her chest. It occurred to her then that checking on Twilight would be more fun than dusting the next room. “Then again, she’s probably buried in the original designs. And I’ll always be second-to-books for her.” A sigh marked her departure from the room.

The library was completely silent when she entered it. Not even the sound of spiders spinning their webs could be heard, if that even made a sound. “Hey Starbutt! Wanna see what I just happened to find?” Twilight was indeed surrounded by a pile of sketches and designs that dated back well over a thousand years. Either she couldn’t hear the question, or she was so invested in research that she didn’t notice at all.

She did notice when her tail was tugged sharply. “Ow! What’s wrong with you Sunset?” Twilight was quick with a small burst of magic, narrowly missing Sunset’s own tail as she stepped out of the way. The expression taking over her face was nothing short of utter confusion. “Wha… Since when do you have a tail?” She moved her own tail up to look at it. “Sure, Rarity regrew her tail at one point, but you’re not supposed to have one at all!”

“And you’re jealous that I have one anyway, aren’t you?” Sunset smirked and sat against a large pile of books. “We both know that my magic is quite powerful, and I put it to use more often than you do.” She extended her hand upward, materializing an apple on her palm. Upon closing her fingers in, the apple vanished in a puff of gold dust. “And besides, I know how to have fun, even when everyone else is doing the most boring things.”

Twilight frowned at her. “I know how to have fun! Right now, though, is not the time for fun. I know when it’s time to take things seriously. And I also know when I need a break from girls who are quite honestly starting to get on my nerves!” A flurry of books slammed shut, her horn glowing bright purple from the outburst. After taking a moment to calm down, she dimmed her magic down again, looking at Sunset with concern. “I know that you’re acting like this because of what I did to you with the Elements. But please, I am begging you to try and be… not childish.”

There was a long pause. Sunset pulled herself away from the books, walking over to Twilight. “Alright, I’ll stop being childish…” A grin appeared in her face. “Once you’ve played a game of tag!” She tugged on Twilight’s tail with her magic before bolting out of the room, laughing in a very childish manner.

“Okay! That’s it!” It was too much. There was no way she’d be left in peace if she didn’t get the message through that she wasn’t interested. Sunset wouldn’t give up that easily. Her horn glowed as she teleported into the main hall, just in time to see the girl sitting on top of Luna’s throne. “I swear, when we get back to Canterlot, I’m calling the whole thing off! The inauguration, the wedding, and your birthday party!”

Before she could teleport to Sunset, she had already moved up to one of the chandeliers. Hanging down by her legs, one hand gripping the hem of her skirt, the other she used to wave teasingly. “You’re really bad at this. That’s why you don’t get a look at what you were sniffing at not too long ago.” She teleported again to one of the tapestries, gripping the smooth wood pole quite firmly. Twilight was still struggling with her footing on the chandelier. “Aw, do you want me to go a bit slower Starbutt?”

“Stop calling me that!” Twilight fired off a magical bolt in Sunset’s direction, leaving a big black mark where she had been a second earlier. In that moment, her jaw began to drop. I tried to hurt her, just to make her stop… One of the chain links holding the chandelier broke, sending it and Twilight plummeting to the hard floor below.

The latter appeared on a balcony nearby, breathing heavily from panicking over the fall. “Sunset? Where are you?” Sunset appeared in a green flash right between Twilight and the wall. In the frantic moment, the alicorn pinned her against the wall by her shoulders. “I’m sorry! You were getting on my nerves, and I overreacted. Just…” She bit firmly down on her lip. “Don’t hate me. Please.”

Sunset looked back at her blankly. Her green eyes were rather vacant at that moment. “Why would I hate you? Sure, we’ve argued a lot, but I love you, and I’m never going to stop loving you.” A grin formed on her face. “Okay, that was really bad. But seriously…” With both hands, she pulled Twilight’s head in, locking her lips into a rather messy kiss. At some point, Sunset felt a tongue slip into her mouth, feeling around in just the way that she herself did before.

The moment finally relaxed into the pony withdrawing her mouth, while the girl adjusted a few curls of hair that had fallen down. “You haven’t gotten worse at kissing, I’ll say that much.” Sunset was still pressed against the wall by Twilight, who looked too bewildered to move from that position. A thought occurred to her as she glanced down at how close they were “Hey, Twi. Why don’t we head back to the Library. Now.”

Twilight was shaken out of her trance by the sultry suggestion. “Wha… Now? I mean, I might be up for it, but it’s such a long walk back, and we’ll be tired by then…” She watched Sunset tap her forehead, prompting her to look up at her purple horn. “Oh, right.” Twilight’s lip curled in. “Are you sure? I mean, I know what to do in a normal encounter, but we’re so different! Things… might not fit together.”

“Well, we won’t know until we try, won’t we?” Sunset clicked her fingers, creating a bright flash of light that took them from the dark castle, directly to Twilight’s room in the library. A convenient wall of books appeared, concealing them from the main floor below. In the darkness, Sunset was about to take off her shirt when something occurred to her. “Pinkie was supposed to tell Spike he had the day off if she saw him, right? Might not hurt to check if he’s still here.”

She resumed removing her clothing while Twilight walked over to the stairs. “Spike? If you’re still here, I’m starting a study session, so you can have the day off! I got stuck at the castle, so I just need to read these other books. No need to bring more up!” The fake smile she put on in the odd chance he did come up was painfully bad, even to her. Sunset’s subtle message had gotten through however, she was being far too paranoid, and it was causing more grief than it was worth.

As Twilight turned back around, her heart had a panic attack of its own. Sunset was sitting on the bed, leaning back on her arms, completely naked. “Uh…” Her breasts looked a little more generous than before, but not out of proportion. What surprised Twilight most at that moment though was the fact that Sunset had one of the most pristine vaginas she had ever seen.

“Stop gawking and get going already.” Sunset pulled Twilight forward, bringing the horn scarily close to turning her into a shish-kabob. As usual, it didn’t bother her at all. “Shame you’re going to be looking at the ground the whole time, isn’t it?” Her right hand started rubbing Twilight’s horn to get it warmed up, while the other hand focused on her own enjoyment.

Twilight was too caught up in the constant rubbing of her horn to pay much attention to what Sunset was saying. It made no sense, her horn was just a conductor for magic, not some phallic object for pleasure. On the other hand, Sunset used her hands for performing spells, some that she hadn’t even heard of until they were performed right in front of her. Perhaps it was their magic types interacting that made her feel so good.

It stopped as a ringing sound came from the hand stroking her horn.

“Oh, that must be Luna.” The rubbing stopped immediately, Sunset using that hand to produce a mobile phone. She paid very little attention to the bewildered look on Twilight’s face while lifting it to her ear. “Hey uh, it’s not exactly the best time.” She crossed her legs, leaving Twilight quickly feeling cock-blocked. “Well, it’s kinda awkward… Oh.” Snapping her left fingers brought back her clothes again. “Alright, but from now on, I’m putting this on silent.”

Sunset got up and removed the book wall. The sudden increase in light brought Twilight out of her dazed state, just in time for the summary. “We’re going to be staying in Canterlot for a few days at least, so it’s time to pack. Apparently, Luna finally got to the bottom of why ‘Our Illustrious and Glorious Leader Celestia’ is in a bad mood.”

There was silence from Twilight, for a long while anyway. Eventually, she licked her dry lips, swallowed, and finally managed to speak. “You think we can catch up on the sex there?”