Twin Moons:

Phase 5 Waxing Gibbous

“So,” Comet started after she had clam down. “what exactly are we looking for?” Nightmare failed to fully explain her plan to Comet, and the mare couldn’t take being left in the dark any more. Whatever Nightmare had plan, led Comet to the wildlife preserve that housed most of the rare and native wild animals and plant life. Most believe that it was here that Discord got the seeds for the poison joke plant, but every time someone asked about it, he would deny any claims.

“We’re looking for a special kind of flower.” Nightmare, still disguised as Crescent, said pushing another leaf out of the way. She was far more focused on finding the desired flower than answering any more of Comet’s questions. “Come on, it must be here somewhere.” She was growing more impatient by the second. Each time she looked behind another leaf or other overgrown plant, her prize would still not be there.

“Okay, could you at least describe the plant to me?” Comet asked peering over Nightmare’s shoulders at the path ahead. “You know the good ol’ saying, ‘two heads are better than one,’ so maybe we’ll have a better chances of finding it.” Comet said know that now Nightmare had to fill her in more about the plan, or at the least she’ll know more about this important flower.

“Fine,” Nightmare said in a huff and she stood up to her full height, which was almost a foot taller than Comet’s. “The flower that we’re looking for is extremely rare, so rare in fact that it will only grow on this island.” Nightmare said remembering the old tales from when she and Luna still shared the same body.

If this thing can bring Soul and Luna to confess their feelings, then maybe it will do the same to Night. Comet quickly plotted out her own plan. “Wow, that does sound rare, but could you tell me what it look like?” Comet asked more determine to find this flower before Nightmare.

“Well I’ll give you a hint; the flower is called Lunam, or in today’s Equestrian, Moonlight.” Nightmare finally answered one of Comet’s questions, however from the look on the mare’s face she wanted a better explanation than just a simple name. “Okay, okay, the flower itself shouldn’t be hard to point out. It has silver petals, blue leaves and purple stems.” She described the flower to her best ability.

“Great, so what you’re saying is that it should stick out like a sore thumb?” Comet asked, thinking she spotted something like that further back to the entrances of the preserve. If I’m right, I could grab that one and just let Night find one of her own. Comet smirked to herself, thinking that her plan was foolproof.

“Yes it should, however though, there is a counterfeit species of Lunam that you should be wary of.” Nightmare warned, returning back to her search for the elusive flower.

“What do you mean?” Comet asked, slightly worried what kind of perpetuities the counterfeit Lunam would have.

“You heard of the poison joke flower?” Nightmare turned and asked Comet, who nodded. “That’s what I mean, before you could only find a few of those things here; but now thanks to Discord, they’re everywhere.” Nightmare said with a snort. “Anyway be wary of things like reverse coloration, as that would have the opposite effect that we want.” She warned.

“Sure thing, think I could use the cloning spell to cover more ground?” Comet asked already enjoying the newfound power. All her life she wanted to be in more than two places, and now thanks to Nightmare she could.

“Right, that would greatly improve our changes, just remember to not over do it; you don’t want the clone that’s taking you place back in Canterlot to fall apart, do you?” Nightmare yet again warned Comet of her limitations with the spell.

Comet nodded in understanding, she closed her eyes and focused her magic on the spell that was now apart of her. Black and silver runes appeared all over her body, giving off a faint midnight-blue light. A black cloud of smoke encased her body, soon after it faded there were three exact copies of Comet standing at attention, and awaiting orders.

“Alright you three, where looking for a flower called Lunam, silver petals, blue leaves, and purple stem.” Comet debrief the clones on their mission. “Alright you know your orders, move out.”

“Yes ma’am!” All three clones shouted in unison and disappeared from slight. Comet smiled to herself, proud that she has already had that much control over the spell.

“Well, I can tell that you’ll put that spell to good use.” Nightmare chuckled. Comet soon followed suit in the joyous laugh. “Alright, let’s get back to work.” Nightmare said returning to the task at hand. Comet nodded and turned walking towards the entrance.

Sorry Night, but I can’t let you do this to yourself. Even if its for Luna, you’re my friend, and you’ll always be. She continued down the path, thinking of what’s to come next.

White Sand beach

While Nightmare and Comet where hard at work, Soul and the others were enjoying the sandy white paradise of the beach. At first Soul was wary of the sandy surface, thinking that it was going to swallow him whole. Luna quickly put his fears to rest when she stepped on the sand. Celestia’s sun was hanging high in the noon sky, and a few ponies could be spotted enjoying the beach in their own way. Some mares were sunbathing, others were playing various games with their friends, and few were out in the surf conquering the waves of the ocean.

Begin the only male, Soul was tasked with carrying all of the mares’ stuff, not like he wasn’t used to doing so. Sugar shortly found a spot for them to set up for the day, and it was a perfect one, right under a sand dune. Soul quickly yet gently set the stuff down on the sandy floor.

“So, this is a beach?” Soul asked to no one in particular. “Seems cool, I guess.” He said in an anticlimactic way, almost as if he was expecting more.

“Oh Soul, you haven’t seen nothing yet.” Luna said almost in a purr, as she unzipped her jacket, and letting it fall to the ground. Upon seeing Luna, Soul’s jaw nearly fell off of his mouth. Soul may have picked up Luna’s bathing suit, but he never actually looked at it.

Luna’s silver bikini top, perfectly covered her breasts, and the bottom was only hold together by two small crescent moons at each side. With her bathing suit a two piece, Luna relieved her well toned stomach, not to thigh, but not to much. Soul’s eyes traced every inch of Luna’s curves, her wide hips giving her the perfect hourglass shape.

Most ponies didn’t know this but to diamond dogs and other bipedal predators, a female’s hips and breast were the most sought after trait for attraction. And Luna had more than Soul could ever think she did. Back in the castle Luna’s body was always hidden from his wandering eyes, but now it was on full display.

“Soul, Soul.” Stormfly waved her hand in front of his face, trying to break him out of his daze. “Princess, I think you just broke him.” She gave up on snapping Soul back into reality.

Sugar shook her head, having a feeling that getting Luna and Soul together was going to be harder than she thought. She walked to Soul’s ear and whispered something only he could hear. Before she even finished, Soul jumped back to reality, and whipped his head to Sugar; who was giggling like a school-filly.

Ignoring the shocked gaze from Soul, Sugar calmly walked back to Stormfly’s side. “What did you say?” She whispered, amazed by her marefriend’s abilities.

“Oh nothing, just the same thing I said to you on our first date.” Sugar said with a giggle, looking back at the flustered dog.

Stormfly was blank for a moment, thinking back to their first date a four years ago. Suddenly the distant memory hit her, and the hottest blush that she has had in a long while took over her entire face. “S-Sugar, you don’t mean…” Stormfly asked staring at Sugar as she set things up. Sugar simple nodded with a sly smirk on her face, the very same one from the memory of their first date.

After finally recovering from Sugar’s ‘encouragement,’ Soul regain face and was able to at least glances Luna’s way. “So, what exactly do you do on a beach anyway?” He asked trying to keep his mind preoccupied. The last thing he need right now was his canine instincts taking control.

Luna was going to answer but Stormfly beat her to it. “Oh, oh, we could smash a watermelon!” She exclaimed with absolute joy, remembering the class trip to Las Pegasus beach her senior year of high school. Stormfly had already taken off her gray jacket, and was wearing a yellow one-piece bathing suit that made her look like she was a filly.

“Strom sweetie, we don’t have a watermelon.” Sugar said still wearing her light-pink jacket, and looking like she had no intention of taking it off.

Stormfly arched an eyebrow when she saw that Sugar was still wearing the hot jacket. “Sugar, aren't you going to take your jacket off?” She asked, the excitement of the beach already making her forget why she still was wearing the jacket. The snickering of Luna and Soul quickly help her remember why her mare was still wearing it and her eyes widen at the memory and what it entails.

“Umm...wait you don’t have to take it off if you don’t want to. It’s not that hot out here.” Stormfly tried to cover up and save her doomed ass, but it was too late as Sugar reached for the zipper of the jacket, and started to undress. When the jacket in the ground, Soul and Luna exploded in laughter. Sugar’s jacket matched her fur completely to the point it looked like she wasn’t wearing anything at all.

Luna’s and Soul’s uncontrollable laughter altered the other beach-goers and must too erupted in laughter at Sugar’s misfortune. Stormfly slowly turned her head around to only to see her greatest fears. Surfers were whipping out from laughing too hard. Ponies playing catch with beach balls stopped and where on the ground laughing, some were even hit by the ball, but didn’t care.

Sugar slowly nodded her head, mentally counting every face she saw laughing. “Oh sweetie, I hope you do know that every time I hear something about my ‘bathing suit,’ that’s just one more reason not to hold back tonight right?” Her voice colder than even Nightmare’s with a sultry yet twisted smile.

“What!?” Stormfly’s wings twitched from a mixture of fear and anticipation. This time she didn’t waste any time to whip her head around, and started to count everypony she saw laughing or having some kind of reaction.

The numbers didn’t look good for her.

“Oh come on Sugar, we don’t need to do that.” Stormfly begged, prying that Sugar would somehow see reason.

“Nope.”

“Please?”

“Not happening.”

“Sugar, please with a bright red cherry on top.” Stormfly pulled out the biggest puppy dog eyes she could manage. Sugar remained stone faced, even when Stormfly leaned in closer. She opened an eye to see the cheesiest smile on Stormfly’s lips. Sugar smirked back, and quickly grabbed the back of Stormfly’s head and thrust her into a powerful surprise kiss.

Sugar pulled back much quicker than Stormfly thought she could, leaving her wanting more. That was until she heard a few stallions shout out some cat calls to them. Stormfly blushed deeply realizing that they were still in public. Sugar pulled Stormfly closer so she could whisper so that even Soul could hear. “Now? Who’s my mare?” The darkest of chuckles escaped Sugar’s lips, sending a cold and dreadful waved down Stormfly’s back.

“I-I am…” Stormfly said falling into her submissive personality that Sugar discovered during their first time together.

“Good. Now be a good little filly and go with Soul to get some watermelons.” From the view of anyone else, Sugar took hold of Stormfly’s erect nipple, and gave it a soft pinch making Stormfly moan.

“Y-yes ma’am.” Stormfly answered obediently, she reached into her bag and pulled out a small pouch of bits. She turned around and looked to Soul, who more or less had calm down like the rest of the beach. “Hey Soul, want to go get some watermelons?” She asked in her cheery manner, as though nothing has happened.

Soul just looked at the pegasus confused to all heck. “Um...sure. Why the hell not.” He hopped up off the ground and followed Stormfly to the nearby fruit stands.

“We’ll be right back.” Stormfly called out mostly to Sugar. Feeling playful, Stormfly nudged Soul with in elbow and took off to the air with Soul close behind on foot.

As soon as the two were out of earshot, Sugar began to laugh in pure anticipation of tonight. She laid out a blanket, pulled out a book and a pair of sunglasses, and started to read where she left off. “You two have the most...um what’s the word…interesting relationship I’ve ever seen.” Luna said setting out her own blanket.

The sly smile on Sugar’s lips only grew in size. “Oh come on princess, you give me too much credit.” She said turning the page.

“Hump...well I don’t think using her split personalities is a good thing.” Luna said remembering the files she read up on about Stormfly, right before they left.

“Don’t worry princess, I’ve already talked with Stormfly about it, and she says its fine so as long I don’t try and take advantage of her.” Sugar said turning the page of the book. For the almost five years now, Sugar has known about Stormfly’s split personalities, and what to do to trigger each one. She also knew that Stormfly could sometimes control the separate personas and trigger them herself. “And besides, she’s getting better at controlling them.”

“Oh is she now, like what exactly?” Luna asked taking interested in this new bit of information.

“You remember the changeling invasion three years back?” Sugar asked, never forgetting the dark day the changelings attacked Canterlot.

“Sadly, I wasn’t able to make it.” Luna said with a sigh, “I had a meeting in the Griffin Empire a week before, and was unable to make it in time.” She said much to her irritation. The transport that she took to the mountain empire was unable to make it through the thick fog, and suffered delays.

“Ah, I see, well anyway I had a cousin that was working as the head chief to the wedding, and she got me and Stormy tickets in. Sadly the changelings were also in the wedding.” Sugar remembered the exact moment when Twilight stopped the wedding reliving Chrysalis identity. “We managed to make it out of the ball room, but a group of changelings caught up to us.”

“Well what happened next?” Luna asked, already finding this story more interesting than the one in her hands.

“They cornered us in an alleyway, and I was on the ground like a hopeless foal.” Sugar started laughing at the way she reacted in the situation. “But Stormfly didn’t seemed fazed one bit, she took on the group, and took them out without getting a single scratch on her.” She recalled the memory and her heart was sent fluttering.

“She moved like lightning, and she was knocking them out like thunder.” Sugar blushed realizing that she just sounded like a damsel in distress and Stormfly was her knight in shining armor. “Before reinforcements showed up, she had already lead me to an abandoned building, and hid me away well she went out and help the guards. That’s when she decided to became one, so she could always protect Equestria.” Sugar let out a happy sigh from the memories.

“Umm...no, I say she became a guard to protect you more than Equestria.” Luna said amazed by the bubbly pegasus’s true nature.

“You think so?” Sugar stopped to think to herself for a half-second. “Yeah you’re right. I really do love her.” She continued to said hiding her blush with her book.

“I know so.” Luna said returning to her own book, far be on impressed with Stormfly.

While Sugar and Luna talked, Soul and Stormfly had their own conversation going.

“What?! That horrible!” Stormfly shouted at Soul, who was carrying three heavy watermelons. On the way back Stormfly couldn’t help but ask Soul more about his home, and the discoveries weren’t to her liking.

“Would you stop shouting. If it wasn’t done I most likely won’t be in Equestria.” Soul said in an annoyed tone of voice. Over the course of the conversation, the topic quickly was shifted back to the months after the monsoon and the discoveries of Soul’s powers.

“But you can’t push someone that young into fighting things three times it’s size!” Stormfly continued to shout, showing no signs of calming down anytime soon.

“Look, I know. But it’s what happened, and I don’t ever want to change it.” Soul said not wanting to remember all of the days the alphas would have him fight some monster of an animal, or train until his body drops.

“How could you say that?” Stormfly asked hoving right in front of Soul.

“Storm, think about it.” Soul paused waiting for Stormfly to at least hear reasoning. “If it wasn’t for all of that training, I most likely wouldn’t be in Equestria, I would most likely still be somewhere in Savanna wandering around aimlessly.”

“Still though it’s not right.” Stormfly said still not pleased with the puphood Soul had.

“It’s what happened, can’t change it now, and never want to.” Soul said flatly. “So, what about you Stormfly? You seem like the mare that has a story or two.”

“Huh, me? There’s nothing really that special, not at least compared to you anyway.” Stormfly said lazily hovering beside Soul.

“Good thing I’m not comparing than. Come on Storm, you must got something. What about your cutie mark?” Soul asked finding pony cutie marks an interesting topic sometimes.

“Huh? What about my cutie mark?” Stormfly asked completely clueless of what Soul was asking.

“How ya get it?” Soul asked gesturing his hand to the dark cloud on her flank, one of the watermelons nearly fell out of his grasp, but Stormfly was quick to respond. She swooped it out of the air, and gently rested underneath her perky breasts.

“Well it was back flight school…”

Thirteen years ago, Cloudsdale flight school

About Thirteen years ago, I was just another pegasus filly going to flight school. Back then I didn’t make a lot of friends, so I just kept to myself most of the time. I wasn’t even that good of a flier, yet the flight coach thought I should be on the Cloudsdale weather team.

What do you mean? Oh, well Cloudsdale usually like to teach young, and most pegasi already take various weather jobs, besides Soul, it was just a sports team. Anyway one day during practice, some of the umm...what’s the best way to say it nicely? Umm...meaner? Yeah, let’s go with meaner. One day during practice, some the meaner ponies were picking on a filly for not being able to keep up with the rest of us.

I believe her name was...Lighting Dust? Maybe, I dunno. Like I was saying they were picking on her for being slower than the rest, which wasn’t by that much considering. They just kept messing with her to the point where she would start to cry, and what really made me mad was that no one wouldn’t do anything about it.

You would think someone would go get the coach, but no. Everypony just stood around doing nothing. Well I couldn’t take it anymore so I confronted them about it. And of course, they didn’t care much about what I had to say, but I did managed to get them to leave her alone at least for that day.

A few weeks later and we’re the best of friends, and with the Cloudsdale games coming up, the team was practicing harder than ever to get ready. Lighting got really faster after we became friends, and I was the best when it came to storm detail and cloud shaping.

Of course it was a big event. Princess Celestia was there herself. You couldn’t imagine my joy and excitement when I heard that Princess Celestia herself was coming. Me and Lighting trained for hours. Shut up it’s not the same thing you went through.

At last the day of the games started and I was really pumped, but Lighting had other plans. “Hey Storm, we don’t we knock out some of the competition?” She asked me. Imagine my shock when one of my best friends just asked me if I wanted to ruin the competition with her.

No, I didn’t agree to it, I even tried to talk her out of it, but she won’t listen to me. As the team was going through the routine, Lighting broke formation, and tried to take lead. She was good, but she wasn’t good enough to safely pull of the move. She wind up knocking into the rest of the team sending them all falling towards the clouds below. The referee blew a whistle declaring that we’ve been disqualified.

The team was devastated, none more so then Lighting. So blamed herself for the team shame, and failures. I’ve got no idea what went through her head cause the next thing she decides to do was make a tornado.

Properly, she always wanted to impress everyone. Anyway Lighting was good, much faster than me, but she lacked all self-control which is needed to make a real one. Almost immediately she lost control of it and was thrown out of the funnel, now the tornado was running loses in Cloudsdale. It was bad, it kept growing in size, and started to suck in other clouds.

Officials did their best to get the situation under control but it was easy for me to tell that they didn’t know what to do. Heh, I still remember the feeling I got just from looking at the rampaging tornado. Coach quickly got us to safety but Lighting turned up missing. One of the bullies spotted her trying to get back into the funnel, but the winds were way too much for her. She was thrown again but this time through the cloud floor.

I was quick to try and save her seeing as how its was my fault. Yes it was Soul, if I had told the coach what Lighting was planning, he would have took her out and replaced her with somepony else, but I didn’t- no couldn’t.

Anyway as much as I tried I couldn’t fight through the storm. I was just kept being knocked around. That’s when an idea hit me. Why fight against the storm? Why fight something that’s been helping you fly your entire life? So instead of fighting it I went with the flow, and I flew faster than I’ve ever had before. But I didn’t have time to think about how fast I was going, I snapped my wings to my back and shot through the cloud floor. I saw Lightning falling towards the ground, I tried anything I could to reach her in time.

I managed to grab her and I snapped opened my wings shooting right back up to the stadium. For some reason I just kept going faster and faster, it felt like my wings were going to fall off of my back, but I pushed through. And get this, the spotted that I went through was the eye of the tornado.

When I shoot through most of the wind followed me, just helping me go faster. When I got to the top, the tornado lost so much wind that the emergency team was able to get it under control. I slowly hovered my way back to the ground. I was really, really, really tired. The whole team and the coach came to see if we were okay, which we were aside from me begin dead tired, and Lighting Dust’s broken pride.

Celestia herself came to congratulate me. I felt so proud of myself, I never thought that my plan would work but it did. Celestia also lean in and whispered, “And congratulation on getting your cutie mark.” Yup, I pulled down the side of my performance pants and right there on my blank flank was this very cutie mark. From the moment I saw it I knew that it meant that I was like a storm cloud always looking out for everyone.

Present day

“Holy Cerberus...that has to be one of the coolest stories I’ve ever heard.” Soul said after Stormfly finished her story. “So what happened to Lighting Dust?”

“Oh well, she was kicked off the team. She nearly got kicked out of flight school, but after I asked Celestia, she was able to stay on probation.” Stormfly said with a bittersweet smile.

Soul caught the saddened expression. “Storm is there something you’re not telling me?” He asked nudging Stormfly out of her slump.

“Well...me and Lighting Dust weren’t really much friends after that. Especially since I was being scouted by a coach from the best flight teams all over Equestria.” Stormfly said with a long sigh. “I hope she’d forgive me…”

“If you two were real friends she will.” Soul said with a friendly smile.

“Heh, thanks Soul.” Stormfly said returning the smile.

“Hey what are friends for?” Soul said in a nonchalant manner. “Oh and good luck.”

“Good luck with what?” Stormfly asked already again forgetting the talk with Sugar tonight. Having split personalities had its advantages and disadvantages. Short term memory loss being one of those disadvantages.

Soul started to laugh at the mare only confusing her even further. “Your ass is grass, filly.” He clucked head towards the sand dune that Luna and Sugar were suppose to be at.

Suddenly Stormfly caught onto what Soul was saying and she started to hit her head against the watermelon. “I’m such an idiot, I am going to die tonight aren't I?”

“Eeyup.” Soul said trying to sound like Applejack’s older brother. Soul and Stormfly were at the spot where Luna and Sugar sat down only to see that they were both asleep. “Hey Storm. What to have your last taste in freedom?” A wicked smile spread across Soul’s face.

“I don’t like where this is going...aww what the hell? What you got in mind?” Stormfly asked as she sat the watermelon as gently as possible on the ground. She knew that Sugar was a heavy sleeper but she wasn’t so sure about Luna.

“Hand me that marker in my bag.” Soul said whisper, knowing that Luna could sleep through a steeped of rhinos, but he wasn’t sure about Sugar. Stormfly went through Soul’s bag which was thankfully not near the two sleeping mares, she found the black marker, and handed it to Soul. “So Stormfly,” He uncapped the marker and stood in front of Luna. “you want to go to art school?”

The two pranksters quickly went to work, knowing that when the sleeping beauties awake, so would the most hellish demons would, but they didn’t care...much.

Back in the Crescent island’s wildlife preserve

Back in the wildlife preserve Nightmare, Comet, and the clones looked high and low for the Moonlight flower.

Well mostly…

“I know it was here somewhere.” Comet pushed passed leaf after leaf looking for the flower before Nightmare could find one. She was on the far south side of the preserve about five minutes off from the entrance. Comet still couldn’t believe that Nightmare missed the flower at the entrance but she was glad none the less.

“Where are you, you stupid- Ah-ha!” Comet spotted the silver petals of the flower. She reached down to pick the flower up when she noticed the slight yet still difference in the color of the leaves. The flower Comet spotted was just a fake Luama flower, the leaves were a black in color not the blue that Nightmare had told her.

“Great, back to square one.” Comet said getting ready to check in with the other clones. She closed her eyes and her horn sparked to life in a faint blue glow.

Alright everypony, sound off.

Clone Alpha, check.

Clone Gamma, reading you loud and clear.

Clone...Which one was I again?

Zelta. Comet remained the third clone for the second time in the last two hours. Maybe Night was right about using too many clones. Oh well there’s no time for that, what do you all have?

As of the current moment, nothing so far. Alpha called out walking down the path to another patch of flowers.

I don’t got anything either but I can feel that one of us is close. Gamma answered bring up the odd feeling she been having for awhile.

You too? I thought it was something else. Alpha said looking around a tree. It almost feels the same way when Night is having her busts of magic.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Comet replied confirming Alpha’s theories. Zelta, you offly quite do you have anything to say? She asked the third clone, who remained silent. Zelta, sound off.

Huh? Oh um...that flower we’re looking for…

Yes?

It has silver petals and blue leaves right?

Yes and a purple stem. What do you see it?

Yeah there’s a whole bunch up here.

What do you mean ‘up here?’ Zelta where are you?

I’m on a cliff. Oh hey I can see you guys, Hiya Alpha, Gamma, Boss-mare!

What? Comet turned around and looked up to the large hill in the preserve. It didn’t take very long for her or the other clones to spot Zelta waving her arms at them and jumping up and down. “What is wrong with that clone?”

Zelta, stop jumping around, and find a place to hid.

Okay!

Gamma, Alpha how fast do you two think you can get up there? Comet asked the other two already looking for a way up the rocky hill.

I’m already on my way up. Gamma answered climbing the rock side.

I’m quite away off, do you want me to go get Nightmare? Alpha asked her search has taken her to the far eastern side of the preserve.

Yes, that would be a good thing but do it slowly or until me and Gamma can check it out. Comet said making her way up the hill. She found a small thin path of rock along the edge. Comet pressed her body close to the wall and sided across until she got to an opening.

She looked around the cave to see if she could find Zelta or even Gamma. Comet looked around the small cave taking note of the kind of plant-life and source of sunlight. “This doesn’t make any sense, how can there be this many plants, yet next to no sunlight?” She asked noting the high contrast between the two factors.

“Maybe it’s magic?” Comet heard Gamma guess. She looked towards the clone as she was dusting herself off. “I mean there seems to be a lot of stuff highly inflected by magic so why not the plant life?” The clone continued with her theories.

“You could be right. Come on let’s find Zelta and see what we could do about this whole thing.” Comet said walking up a path that led upward. The higher Comet and Gamma went up the more ‘night-like’ the cave seemed to get. Greens started to turn to silvers and whites, the cave walls started to glisten brightly like stars . Each plant looked like another piece of the night sky.

“Yeah, magic…” Comet whispered to herself, awed by the shining lights.

“Hey Boss-mare, found Zelta.” Gamma said breaking Comet out of her trace. Gamma pointed up to a opening to the cave that was overlooking the entire preserve and Zelta poking a flower that fit the description of the Moonlight flower.

“Zelta,” Comet called out to the clone mare. Zelta looked over to the two and started to wave them over. “so what did you find?” Comet asked when she walked over.

“This, it sure looks like what we’re looking for.” Zelta said handing the flower to Comet. She looked it over making sure to spot any difference that would tell her that it was a fake, when she found none she looked over to Gamma.

“Its the real deal, this is the Moonlight flower we’ve been looking for.” Comet said confirming the find. Comet exmed the flower curious how such a small thing could make an alicorn and a hellhound confess their love. More importantly she wondered what was the effects of the fake flowers.

“Gamma, go back to the entrance where I found that fake and pick it up.” Comet said thinking that the flower could have some purpose after all. Gamma nodded getting Comet’s real wordless order. She leaped out of the opening of the hilltop cave and made her way towards the entrance of the preserve.

“Hey, Boss-mare. Why are we trying to get Nightmare with Soul if she want’s Luna to be with him?” Zelta openly asked the same question that she been asking herself for a few days now.

“Cause, it’s not fair that Luna gets a chance, and Night don’t.” Comet answered her own question. Though she knew that wasn’t the real answer.

Comet really did wanted to help Nightmare pay Luna back for keeping her safe when the elements of harmony ‘defeated’ her but Comet have noticed the signs of Nightmare’s interest in Soul. When she finally worked up the nerve to confront Nightmare about it, she said that she admired Soul’s seamlessly natural loyalty; a trait that both Luna and Nightmare shared in looking for a mate.

Nightmare may have wanted to take the sun out of the sky but that wasn’t the truth. In fact, her only desire was to see Luna happy that ponies saw her beautiful moon, but Nightmare went about it all the wrong way and got both her and Luna sent to the moon for a thousand years.

Comet could understand Nightmare’s misunderstanding of Luna’s wish but still thought that the punishment they both received was far too much.

“But what if Night can’t be with Soul and Luna?” Zelta continue to verbalize all of Comet’s doubts and questions. “What if ponies can’t take Nightmare Moon returning?” Zelta’s voice slowly changed from the happy and bubbly to a more serious tone, only making answering the questions much more difficult.

“Then we’ll take care of her. We…I will be her friend until the very end and nothing will stop me.” Comet said fighting back the tears she been holding in for Nightmare for six years.

Ever since Comet found Nightmare wandering the streets of Canterlot, she has been taking care and watching over her, and that didn’t change when Comet learned the truth about Nightmare’s identity. When Comet agreed to help Nightmare get Soul and Luna together, it didn’t take much to see that she had feelings towards Luna, and more surprisingly she had grown to admire Soul from a distance.

“And if she leaves?” A cold wind filled Comet’s chest, that’s question has been the one she has been avoiding for the longest. The simple question would make Comet question rather if she should continue to help Nightmare. She didn’t want to lose one of her best friends, not after all the times Nightmare went out on a limb and helped Comet with something, but that would mean abandoning Nightmare when she needed her the most.

“If...if she leaves then...then that’s her choice.” Comet forced herself to answer the question. She knew that it wasn’t her real answer, nor was it the one she wanted, but there wasn’t much she could do in stopping an alicorn.

“Okay...but one more question. What about you?” Zelta asked sitting on the edge of the entrance.

“What do you mean what about me?” Comet asked, done with answering her clone’s questions. “What do you want me to do? Go to Luna and tell her that she only going to have the love her life because of Nightmare Moon? Tell Soul that he should allow Nightmare to be apart of his herd just cause I said so?” Comet fired back her own line of questions at the clone but both of them was able to tell that she was asking herself. “You want me to go and force Luna to take Nightmare Moon back? Want me to just tell Nightmare to give up this little game? Huh is that it?”

“No.”

“N-no?” Comet repeated the word, her breath was tried and raged from the series of emotional questions.

“No.” Zelta shook her head, the cheery voice finding its way back. “I mean what are you going to do if this works or not?”

“What?” Comet was taken back by the rephrasing of the question. “What about me?”

“Well...what do you think Nightmare going to after all this? What do you have plan if nothing works?” Zelta asked more questions that Comet have been hiding even from herself. “What do you want?”

“What do I want?” Comet repeated the question to herself thinking of an answer. “I want...I want Soul and Luna to be together, I really do, they’re just right for each other.” Comet said her eyes casted down to the ground. “But I also want Night to be happy as well and not just happy for Luna, I want her to be happy with Luna.” Comet answered the question a truthfully as she could, the feeling of the world being lifted off her shoulders. Her task was clear, goals, and objectives seemed to be closer in reached then before. Comet knew exactly what she was going to do and rather it worked or not remains to be seen.

Gamma’s single came through to Comet’s horn, she activated the link that she and the other clones shared to speak with her. Hey Boss-mare, I got the flower, now what?

Take it back to the hotel room and hide it somewhere where Night won’t find it.

Got ya, heading back now Comet cut the link off, sure that Gamma was quickly making her way back to the Sandy Moon. With one piece of the puzzle in place, Comet quickly set out for the next.

Alpha where are you, we’re ready for Night to come up here.

On my way now, we should arrive shortly.

Good tell her that we found a cave full of them. They seemed to be growing towards the direction of the moon.

Do you think that’s why we had so much trouble looking for these things?

I don’t know but my question is why would Night have no luck finding one before us. She seemed to have more than a small bit of knowledge about this flower, yet she didn’t think to look for them up here.

Maybe Luna didn't have knowledge of the usual placement of the flower? The two do have collective knowledge about things up until they were separated.

That is true and could be the answer, especially since we don’t know how much Luna knows about this island.

Yes that’s what I was thinking. We’ve made it to the hill and we’re looking for a way up, I’ll contact you once we’re inside.

Understood. Comet disconnected from the link with Alpha and stared off into the distance.

What I want, huh? She thought to herself, still bother by Zelta’s questions, and her own self doubts. Comet really couldn’t help but think that at some point either she or Nightmare were going to buck heads. She really wasn’t looking forward to it, but for Nightmre’s shake…

“It’s worth it.”

White Sand Beach

“Master Luna...please I’m sorry!” Soul begged Luna for forgiveness after he and Stormfly have been caught in the act of their childish prank. Right in the middle of finishing off Sugar, Luna had started to wake up, and she saw what the two were doing to Sugar she started to bad-mouth them about their little pranks. That’s when Sugar woke up and saw the black markings on Luna’s face as well.

Both mares were pissed.

“Sorry?! SORRY?! What in the crater’s name made you think that this was funny?!” Luna shouted at Soul. She had bonded both him and Stormfly to the ground so that neither one could escape.

Soul’s hands were tied behind his back and his legs were bounded together in a painful P.O.W position. Stormfly’s bindings were slightly differently than Soul’s. Upon Sugar’s request, Stormfly’s wings were bounded to their back at the base, a known weak spot of strong fliers like her. Magical ropes tied underneath her breasts making them stick out more and a knot was tied right in between her legs making fairly uncomfortable for her to move.

To make matters worse, Sugar had found a nice comfortable spot to sit on Stormfly’s back, and she was slapping Stormfly ass through her bathing suite.

“Stormy?” Sugar said her voice hollow and devoid of all emotions. She also followed the call with a powerful and loud smack to Stormfly redding ass cheek.

The smack made Stormfly cry out in both pleasure and a bit of pain but she fought through, knowing it would be worse if she didn’t respond to her marefriend’s call. “Y-yes m-ma’am?”

“What made you think that this would be funny, humm?” Sugar asked with another powerful smack to the ass.

“I-I didn’t…I...we…” Stormfly stumbled, switching between personalities usually made it hard for her to clearly think for a moment. “I don’t know…” She finally gave up with asking her jokester side for a good reasonable answer.

Sugar frowned, obviously not liking the answer that she received. She reared her hand high up towards the sky and in one fluent motion drove her hand hard on the smaller mare’s ass; her nails digging into the sink under the fur. The smack rang out through the whole beach even making some of the ponies flinch for the poor pegasus mare.

Stormfly did her best not to cry out from the pure pain of the smack but she be lying if she said it didn’t hurt like hell. Sugar got off of Stormfly allowing her breathing to return to normal. Stormfly looked up towards Sugar, remorse and guilt edged onto Stormfly’s face, but Sugar showed no signs of caring.

“Princess, me and Stormfly will be taking an early leave. We’ll have to simple reschedule the watermelon smashing.” Sugar said grabbing a rope tied to Stormfly’s back at the base of the wing.

“Ah! S-Sugar please…” Stormfly begged the knot resting on top of her marehood was starting to rub and dig into the bathing suit. Sugar slapped Stormfly for speaking out of line, pinching her ass as well.

“Oh I agree we do have all week before we have to leave. So what’s the rush?” Luna said conjuring up a catapult from out of thin air. “What you say my student, why don’t we just play a little old game of our’s?” Luna lifted Soul off the ground and placed him inside of the catapult.

“Hey, hey Luna! What are you doing?” Soul said struggling against his bindings. This wouldn’t be the first time Luna has tied Soul up for some reason or another, but this was the first time she added a catapult to the mix.

“Soul you remember how you said that you wished you had wings?” Luna asked with a cold tone of voice. She placed her hand on the release mechanism, “Well...You better start flying!” She pushed the lever down sending Soul screaming and flying through the air.

Everypony just stood as they watch the dog disappear from sight. Luna gave a satisfied nod and started to make her way to the beachfront showers. “Do not worry about our stuff Sugar, you go on and have your fun I’ll see to it that everything is left in order.” Luna said casting a barrier spell around their belongs.

“Thanks you princess come along sweetie, we’re going to have that talk early.” Sugar said leading the still bound Stormfly back to the restore. Stormfly obediently followed Sugar without question. Fear, anticipation, excitement, and dread filled her heart with step towards the restore.

Meanwhile five miles above the White Sand…

“Shit, shit, shit!” Soul struggled against the bindings, his claws already proved themselves useless so he had to restore to magic. “Oh shit, I hope this works.” Soul forced his magic to the air rushing past him. The high winds begin to swirl around him at high speeds until they cut the magic ropes.

“Ha-ah! Fuck you Equestrian magic.” Soul shouted in victory as he busted free. He righted himself seeing the beach ground coming up quickly. “Okay, claws don’t fail me now.” Soul said bracing for the unavoidable impact with the ground. Ponies watched in sheer amazement as Soul aimed straight for the ground claws at the ready.

At the right moment Soul took one big swing at the sandy surface. A massive sand-cloud erupted from the impact of Soul’s claws, ponies had to shield their eyes from the dusty cloud. When it finally settled a large hole was all that was left from the short impact.

“Whoa, you think he’s dead?” One stallion asked looking down the deep hole. There seemed to be no signs of Soul’s body from the dark hole.

“I don’t know. That sure was a big fall though, I hope he is okay.” Another mare said looking down the hole. Just as the crowd of ponies grew some of them started to feel the ground shake.

“Does any other pony feel that? Its like something is-”

“Ha-ah!” Soul literally shot up from the sandy ground. “Man, that was so fucking awesome! Sand is way easier to tunnel through than earth.” He proclaimed his newly found discovery while he dusted and shook off the sand.

“Hey man are you alright?” The stallion from before asked Soul. He wasn’t sure if he should be impressed by the diamond dog or should he be running from his life.

“Yeah I’m fine, this wouldn’t be the first time that master Luna has thrown me before.” Soul said shaking his leg to be rid of the pesky sand. “Actually that just gave me the best idea.” He said smirking at his brilliant revenge plan. Soul suddenly took off in mad dash on all four legs, taking some wind with him, and nearly knocking ponies off their feet's.

Using his hind legs Soul launched high into the air only to come chasing through the loose sand floor. He easily dug through the sand, years of fighting animals and any other creature that tried to kill him has made his claws abnormally dense and super strong, which made quick work of the flimsy sand.

Watch out Luna, I’m coming for you, and there are no breaks on the revenge train. Soul thought to himself remembering how far away he was thrown from their spot on the beach. Soon Soul reached his intend spot of attack and with one leap upwards he broke through the sand.

“I’m back!” He shouted with only his head sticking out of the sand. Soul expected Luna to be resting on her beach towel but she was nowhere to be found. “Great what to do now?” Soul said searching anything to do in the meantime. He quickly spotted some ponies surfing the waves of the ocean. “Never done that before might as well give it a try.” Soul slipped under the sand floor and tunneled to the place he saw some of the ponies.

Meanwhile in the beach showers…

“Guh, that Soul. I bet its because of Tia that he’s acting like this.” Luna said washing off the ink from her fur. Six months was all it took for Celestia and Soul to become friends and mates of pranking. The two would go out of their way to prank Luna or some random guard in the castle and of cause Luna would scold her sister and have Soul do extra training or studying.

Its not like Luna wouldn’t get them back for the prank with one of her own. And usually Soul would be a good sport and shake off the prank. “Maybe I should lighten up, it was a little prank, and we’re here to have fun…” Luna said as the water washed down her face.

Weather it was his hard-working attitude, kindness, strength, or even his simple ingenuity with situation and his magic; Soul would always find a way to impress her. Six months ago when she first laid eyes on Soul, he easily fought off those dragon herd that would have easily defeated any Royal guard, and seemed in complete control of his magic.

Mostly…

“I still wonder what was up with all of those markings...They seemed to be of some kind of ancient runes.” Luna thought back to when Soul lost control and tore apart what was left of the dragon forces. As soon as those runes made themselves known, everything about Soul changed. His movements went from timed to a savagery, magic ran free and out of control, and his eyes...they spoke of hate, madness, and pain.

Luna had more than those reasons to take Soul under her wings. Soul remained her so much of the way she used to be before Nightmare Moon; distant, cold, and uncaring just like she used to be. But in reality, Soul was just using that as a defense if something seemed like it wasn’t going to work out.

“Well I’m glad it did. Its been more fun with him around dogfriend or not.” Luna said turning off the shower head and stepping out. “Humm...I wonder if he survived the fall?” Luna said in amusement knowing that Soul would have thought of one thing or another.

“Whoa, you go sea-dog!” Luna heard a vacationer cheer near the ocean. She looked over to see what was up, when she did the sight was surprising to say the least. Soul was managing to stand on top of a surfboard riding the waves and he wasn’t half bad. Luna giggled, seeing Soul actually trying something new on his own brought a smile to her face.

“To bad that Stormfly and Sugar couldn’t be here. I wonder how they are doing…” Luna said with a sly smile on her face.

Sugar’s and Stormfly’s room

“I said count.” Sugar delivered another slap to Stormfly’s ass, leaving her hand to fully grope the round ass-seat.

“T-twelve…” The still bound mare forced out.

“Good mare, I think that’s enough for now. What do you think?” Sugar asked leaning back to look at her ‘handy’ work.

Stormfly ass was left high in the air, wings pushing against the bindings begging for release, and to top it all off a line of drool was seen coming from both Stormfly’s mouth and her marehood as if begging for more. Sugar always got a thrill from acting much stronger than Stormfly even though she could easily take her, with or without the military training.

As much as Sugar enjoyed the sense of control over her mare but she knew better than to keep her tied up like that. Foreseeing that they would eventually have sex on the vacation, Sugar made sure to pack a small knife to cut any of rope or other bindings that they would use.

“You want out?” Sugar said finding the low bearing rope connecting all the others. Years of using bondage and other restraining outfits have taught Sugar a lot about pegasus’s fears of closed in places and restraining situations. Push the right buttons and you can have any pegasus at your feet.

“Y-yes…” Stormfly moaned unable to wait to be free from the bindings.

Sugar smirked and leaned into Stormfly’s ear. “Then beg for it.” She commanded biting on the sensitive flesh making Stormfly whine and filch from the pain.

“Aaah, S-Sugar...p-please…” Stormfly begged trying to move around to get the knife to cut the ropes only to have the knot dig further into her marehood.

“Oh come on, that’s no way to ask. Here let me help you, ‘Sugar please release me from my bindings and give me relive that only you can bring.’” Sugar played around with the knife threatening to remove it from the ropes.

Feeling Sugar imminent threat, Stormfly quickly worked up the nerve and composer that would be required to say her given phase. “Sugar p-please release m-me from my b-bindings and give me relive that...o-only you can b-bring, my love.” The ropes were immediately cut as soon Stormfly finished the phase. An instant wave of freedom and relief washed over Stormfly and her wings immediately shot outward even flapping a few times from the pure bliss of being free once more.

Stormfly collapsed to the bed, enjoying the freedom from the ropes. Sugar wasted no time in replacing the ropes with her own body; licking and biting the still tendered flesh. Stormfly moaned from the sudden change in treatment, Sugar’s cooling saliva relieving the burning feeling from the ropes.

Sugar slipped her hand down to Stormfly’s sore ass-cheeks and begin to rub and massage them. Stormfly begin to flap her wings up and down uncontrollably.

“You love this don’t you?” Sugar whispered into Stormfly’s ear again, not stopping her massage. “The rough treatment I would give you, then the way I would turn around, and act all nice.” Sugar accused kissing the crack of Stormfly’s neck.

“Mmm...yes...I do.” Stormfly moaned. She could feel Sugar’s breath tickling her fur bringing a smile to her face.

“Then let me make you feel even better.” Sugar said getting off of Stormfly, she got off of the bed and started to make her way towards their travel bags when she felt Stormfly staring at her. “No peeking.” She commanded their eyes locking, forcing Stormfly back into her submissive personality.

When Sugar was sure that Stormfly wasn’t going to go against her command, she started to strip from her ‘bikini’ and reached into her bag. “Now where is it?” Sugar absentmindedly asked shaking her bear flank around. Stormfly couldn’t but help to give the well-tone ass a look over, also getting a glimpse of Sugar’s slightly wet marehood. “Ah-ha!” Sugar proclamation made Stormfly panic and trying to look somewhere else.

Sugar pulled out a eight-inch magical dido. She marveled at the piece of magic and technology, attaching to the user and giving her equal amount of pleasure as Stormfly’s. Also it would automatically become moist for smooth entry if the user wished. It was a gift from their friends Rainfall and Azure a few weeks after the wedding, Sugar couldn’t thank them enough for what she about to do with it.

Sugar aimed the attachment part to her marehood slowly pushing it in. The magic soon activated and a warm tingling sensation washed over Sugar. The plastic shaft begin to glow changing to a cream color to match Sugar’s fur.

“Oh Stormy~ I have a surprise for you~” Sugar singed excited for what is to come next.

“What kind of surprise, cause I don’t think I can take another ‘hot-wax’ treatment again.” Stormfly said not daring to take a peak.

“Close your eyes.” Sugar said in a sweet soft voice that made Stormfly completely relax. She soon felt Sugar climb back onto the bed and slowly clawing towards her. The content soft humming fought back any personality changes. Slowly Stormfly was pushed onto her back and she could feel Sugar gently removing her parts of her bathing suit, leaving her breasts and marehood exposed.

“Storm sweetie you know I love you, right?” Sugar asked the sweetness of her voice not changing.

“Of course Sugar, and I love you too.” Stormfly said with the softest of smiles. She felt something wet and really hot press up against her marehood. “Sugar, what...what’s that?” Stormfly started to become slightly nervous of what Sugar had in plan for her.

“Shhh...everything is alright. I’m just going to show you how good I can really make you feel.” Sugar whispered softly calmed Stormfly down.

“Okay but that didn’t answer my- Aaahh!” Sugar answered Stormfly’s question with one good push in, quickly filling her inner walls. Both mares moaned from the pleasure they were receiving from the magical toy. “Sugar, Sugar...its too much!” Stormfly shouted beginning to panic.

“Shh...d-don’t worry Stormfly, you can do it.” Sugar quietly encouraged, this seemed to work as Stormfly somewhat stopped her panicking. Sugar took this as a sign to continue, pushing deeper and deeper until their hips were touching each other’s. They laid there for a minute allowing both of them to get used to the feeling.

“S-Sugar can I please open my eyes?” Stormfly asked.

“Yes.” Sugar said smiling. As soon as Stormfly could get her eyes open, Sugar lead down and placed a kiss on her mouth. Stormfly more than happily accepted the kiss locking her fingers in Sugar’s long white and pale-red mane. Their tongues met and Sugar already was winning the fight for dominance but still let Stormfly have her fun.

Amidst the kiss Sugar resumed the thrusting, pulling all the way to the tip and sliding back in with more power each time. Stormfly cried out from pleasure pushing Sugar’s head down to her smaller breasts.

Sugar didn’t think twice about wrapping her lips around the erected nipple, roughly biting and sucking of the piece of flesh. Stormfly’s cries grow louder as Sugar picked up the pace of her thrusting. Stormfly could feel that she wasn’t going to last much longer thanks to the ropes and the content teasing that Sugar’s been doing all day.

She started to buck her hips in time with Sugar’s in hopes that the both of them would be able to share an orgasm. Seeing Stormfly’s increased efforts Sugar started to redouble her thrusts, feeling that she too was close.

“Sugar! D-don’t s-stop...I-I’m so close.” Stormfly said feeling that she was right on the edge. Sugar smirked to herself knowing that now was her chance to get truly get back at Stormfly. For any reason that was above Stormfly, Sugar stop her thrusting remaining buried deep inside of Sugar. “Sugar, why?”

“Maybe now you’ll think twice before doing something like pranking me while I’m asleep.” Sugar said laughing at Stormfly’s dumbfounded expression. “Come on, lets go to the shower and see if we can met up with Soul and Luna.” Sugar said getting ready to pull out of Stormfly when she felt her ass be roughly handled. “Stormy?”

“No.” Stormfly said her voice sending a chill down Sugar’s spine.

“No? Come on Storm, you know how sleepy you get after sex.” Sugar said struggling to pull out of her mare. “Stormfly?” Stormfly didn’t respond to any of Sugar’s calls instead she rolled over, plunging the shaft further inside as she took the top.

“No, we’re going to stay here and finish the job.” Stormfly said getting a hang of the top position. Sugar wanted to argue but there was something behind Stormfly’s voice that made her wanted more of this new split personality. With her leg spread outwards, Stormfly had the perfect lavage to start bouncing up and down the shaft. Both mares were quickly brought back to the edge again as Stormfly started to pick up the pace.

Sugar couldn’t help but think about what it felt like to be on the bottom and not the top. The experience was something completely new to her. All of Stormfly’s weight bearing down on her made pushing in a whole lot easier and more pleasurable. Looking up to see that it was the mare of her life giving her this kind of pleasure made Sugar never want to leave Stormfly’s side.

Sugar always was he one on top, now hear she was enjoying being the one on the bottom. “Sugar, a-are you going to let me do all of the work?” Stormfly asked in a mocking tone. Sugar quickly sapped out of her daze and started to thrust upwards with all of her might. “Ahh! More, more, thrust harder!” But it wasn’t much.

Sugar tried grabbing Stormfly’s waist and lifting her up like that. For the most part it worked doubling the pleasure the mares were getting. “S-Storm, I’m going to…” Sugar tried to warn but it was too late as her orgasm rocked her body.

Thanks to the magical toy Sugar’s cum was fired into Stormfly’s marehood making her cum as well. Stormfly continued to ride out both orgasm until she upped and lost all consciousness and fell on top of Sugar.

Sugar laid on the bed heavy breathing with her hands wrapped tightly around Stormfly. “Wow...I’ve got to remember that one.” She whispered before falling asleep.

Author's Note

Sorry guys for the long wait. School, videogames, other stories, and general laziness finally cough up with me. I promise that this well move faster now that I got Practice Under the Moon out of the way, this and Inky: The Mistress of the Night will be my main focus for a little while. Thanks for any continued support!