What If?
Plus Two is...
Previous ChapterNext ChapterWhen I finally woke Luna up from the WIM 3008's influence, she was shivering. So I got the feeling she had learnt her lesson.
Because Luna had been using the WIM 3008 I hadn't been able to use it. So after I let her out and made sure she would wake me up, I entered the machine.
Now I finally had the chance to ask the question that had been plaguing me for ages.
'What if I left on a vacation without telling anyone anything?'
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I woke up at the usual time, but today was different. I had decided last night that I was going to go on a vacation. The thing is last time I went on vacation I was constantly plagued by servants and nobles all asking questions on what to do. So to fix that little problem I decided to not tell anyone.
After raising the sun, I set about gathering some food and some camping gear. After a few close calls in the kitchen where I was nearly seen, I grabbed everything and teleported to the pre determined destination.
As soon as I arrived I dropped everything and had a good look around.
I had teleported to a beach on the south east coast of Equestria. No one but me knew about the location, as I found it shortly after Luna's banishment. The small waves gently lapped up against the golden sand heated to a lovely temperature by the radiant sun.
The entire beach was secluded due to the lush rainforest in all directions bar one and that was east onto the ocean.
In the rainforest surrounding the beach the were many trees containing fruits of a variety not seen anywhere else. There were bananas, coconuts, citrus fruits, pineapples, passion fruit and many more that didn't even have names.
'This is just perfect.' I thought as I set up my tent.
After setting up my tent I decided to go for a swim in the the clear, sparkling water filled with exotic lifeforms. I rushed down golden beach eager to get the water.
The moment I touched the water, I gasped in shock. It was cold and definitely nice. I swam around in the water for a bit. Occasionally diving down to get a better look at the weird corals littering the seabed and the exotic fish the swum through the passages like they were going about their lives in an exotic underwater city.
After a bit of this I noticed that It was starting to get dark, so I headed back to shore.
When I got out I started to shiver, so I quickly grabbed a towel and wrapped it snugly around my body. I was still feeling cold so I levitated a small amount of twigs, leaves and logs out of the rainforest and piled them together in front of my tent. After doing so, I summoned some sparks with my horn and carefully lit the fire.
Shortly I had a nice, little fire going. Once it took hold and I didn't have to be constantly watching it, I dashed away from it's warm embracing heat and grabbed the marshmallows from my tent that I had nicked from the kitchen and brought them over to the fire.
Soon I was chilling next to a slowly dying fire while occasionally roasting a marshmallow or two.
My internal body clock then reminded me of something I had nearly forgotten. So I quickly lowered the sun making a nice sunset behind the rainforest.
After finishing off the rest of the marshmallows I got rid of the rubbish with a decay spell and headed of to bed leaving behind the fire to die down overnight.
As I drifted off to sleep I wondered to myself 'Why have I never done this before? The quiet and peace is so relaxing.' After those thoughts I was quickly asleep.
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Meanwhile back in Canterlot...
"Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat!" Luna roared along with the song while guzzling down shot after shot.
Since Celestia had disappeared Luna had taken the opportunity to do some things that she would normally not be able to do with her older sister watching her.
Since both the Royal Sisters had disappeared, the castle had been left in uproar with everybody running around like headless chickens.
"What do we do now? Are they dead? Have they left us? Have they been abducted by aliens?" Screamed one helpless noble.
"Maybe Discord is back!?" Screamed another.
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Meanwhile in Ponyville...
Absolutely was out of the ordinary, because they knew nothing of these recent occurrences.
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The next day I woke up at my usual time and crawled out of my warm sleeping bag. As I unzipped my tent I gently lifted the sun above the horizon. As I did so, I noticed that the moon wasn't being lowered. I quickly lowered it and wondered to myself what could have caused Luna to forget.
Anyway putting that out of mind I thought about what I was going to do for my last day of vacation. I decided breakfast was a good start. After contemplating it for a short while I decided to make something with the fruit from the rainforest enclosing the beach.
A short time later I was stretched out on my side looking out across the ocean watching the sunrise while sipping from a coconut filled with pineapple juice with a bendy straw. Sadly I didn't have a paper umbrella or any rum.
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After spending the day relaxing in the sun with a short swim before lunch, I decided to pack up an hour before sunset. As I packed everything back up I thought to myself 'I should this again sometime. It was a lot of fun.'
After everything was packed I grabbed it all and teleported back to my room. Once I dropped my stuff off I headed down to the throne room to see how Luna had taken my unexpected disappearance for 2 days.
When I got there my jaw dropped in shock. This is not what I was expecting. There was a crowd of panicking nobles and servants rushing around doing things. And Luna was nowhere to be seen.
"Ahem." I caught their attention by clearing my throat. "What is happening?" I asked.
They all rushed into a huddle whispering things. Shortly an unlucky servant was shoved in my direction.
"Well, Princess. The thing is you disappeared so we went to Luna and asked her what to do. She told us to leave her alone for a bit and when we came back she was gone. We weren't exactly sure what had happened to either of you so we may have panicked a little bit. Also this morning we found Luna passed out in a club down in the city. She was a bit hungover so we put her to bed."
"Oh Luna..."
Still shocked by the state of affairs the castle was in compared to when I left I set about cleaning up the mess.
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It was at this point that Luna woke me up from that... Interesting possibility. Going on a marvellous vacation and coming home to a crazy house and a sister who went out and raved and drank till she passed out instead of taking responsibility.
"So what happened?" Luna asked once she brought me out of the possibility.
"It's a long story."
Author's Note
Feedback and advice is always appreciated. Thanks for reading.
Now where was that ice-cream?
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