A Special Sunrise

Six days had passed and it was the fourteenth day since Celestia had left and stopped doing her duties. Luna was sitting in the throne room when Galaxia came in to talk to her. Galaxia had a smile on her face and asked, "So Luna, are you going to be ready to become the same size as your dad and myself?"

Luna smiled and replied, "Yep, you bet I am."

Galaxia asked, "So regarding Colgate and Lyra, which one will be up here to handle most of the daytime issues such as the court for squabbles between commoners and which one will be handling issues in Ponyville?"

Luna flew down from the throne and led her mom out to the balcony. Her mom, like her, has superior eyesight and can make out individual buildings from many miles away. Luna pointed her hoof off towards Ponyville and asked, "Mom, you see that blue building there with the green roof?"

Galaxia replied, "Yes, I do."

Luna continued, "Well Colgate is a dentist. That is her office and she said that she will not do this for me unless I allow her to remain being a dentist down there, so it will be Lyra who moves up here."

Galaxia asked, "I noticed that Colgate has an hour glass cutie mark. Besides being a dentist, is she a Time Lady as well?"

Luna replied, "Yes, she is. If you would like to do so, you could get to know Colgate and Lyra better so you will be well acquainted with those who will become the new princesses."

Galaxia replied, "I would love that, let's go!"

While they headed to the throne room Twilight's former friends were setting things up for a spectacular coronation the following morning. Luna did not know it but Galaxia and Cosmos had told them to organize the party for the following morning and they put Pinkie in charge of it.

They were out setting up and Applejack saw that there were a lot of fireworks. She asked, "Pinkie, what are all these fireworks for? I thought that she wouldn't officially be crowned until tomorrow morning after she raises the sun."

Pinkie replied, "Well they will sort of be able to be seen and besides, what kind of coronation of this scale would be complete without fireworks?"

Applejack sighed and agreed with Pinkie that the coronation would fall flat without them. Very soon it was getting close to time for supper and Spike and his friends had finished setting everything up and notifying everypony in town of the coronation. While they were shocked, they knew that they needed a monarch who would take her job seriously.

An hour before Luna was scheduled to lower the sun and raise the moon everypony gathered for supper. Galaxia looked at Pinkie and asked, "So did everything I ask you to do get done?"

Pinkie replied, "Yep we did your Majesty!"

Luna asked, "What was all that about? What did you ask them to do?"

Galaxia replied, "Oh it's nothing big."

Luna couldn't help but wonder what was going on. Given that it was something her mom had them do she knew it was nothing bad but she was really more curious than anything else.

An hour later Luna lowered the sun and raised the moon. Cosmos smiled at his daughter and asked, "Are you ready for tomorrow morning?"

Luna replied, "Well yeah, I am. Why wouldn't I be?"

Galaxia joined his side and said, "Oh we're just curious!"

Soon it was time for Luna and Gray Wings to do their patrol of the Everfree Forest. Luna wanted to get down to the bottom of why her parents are asking so strangely. She asked, "Gray Wings, do you know what is up with my parents and why they are acting like they are hiding something?"

Gray Wings had no clue as to what was going on. He replied, "Your Majesty, I honestly have no clue what is going on. If something strange is going on, they have kept me in the dark about it as well."

Luna asked, "Do you think it might just be because if Celestia is not present to raise the sun and I do it this morning that I will become queen?"

Gray Wings replied, "Probably. We better get back to the castle. It is getting close to time for you to lower the moon and raise the sun."

After an uneventful patrol of the Everfree Forest Luna and Gray Wings returned to the castle and headed to the castle courtyard. Everything seemed calm, a little too calm for Luna's liking. She asked, "Gray Wings, does it seem like we are being watched."

Gray Wings replied, "Yeah it does, but I'm not overly worried. If something bad was going to happen, it already would have."

In the bushes Luna's parents, Colgate, Lyra, Cadence, Shining Armor and Spike and his friends were waiting to set off the fireworks. The rest of the town had gathered in the lower courtyard where it was pitch black. Luna knew it was time. She looked at Gray Wings and said, "Well here we go."

Luna looked off to the west and began to lower the moon. It was suddenly darker than dark. She then faced the east and began to raise the sun. As soon as she got the sun all the way above the horizon fireworks began to explode in the sky and the crowd shouted, "ALL HAIL QUEEN LUNA!"

Luna was shocked as the fireworks began to explode, the crowd shouted and cheered and party music began to play. It shocked her so much that she almost accidentally dropped the sun. Once she got the sun elevated above the horizon her parents flew to her and gave her a big bear hug.

Galaxia was crying tears of joy as she said, "My baby has become queen! I knew you could do it!"

Cosmos is not the type to cry but he cried harder than Galaxia and shouted, "Daddy's little filly is now the queen. I'm so proud of you!"

Very soon Spike and his friends along with Colgate, Lyra, Cadence and Shining Armor headed up to the upper courtyard and celebrated with Luna. Applejack said, "Queen Luna, I'm so happy!"

Luna replied, "Wow, this is a surprise! Your prin.....I mean your Queen enjoys this!"

Luna and everypony else headed down to the lower courtyard where Luna mingled with those who for so long she called commoners. When she saw the joy on their faces when she raised the sun and became queen she decided that they are commoners no more. She realized that they truly love her and don't view her as inferior to Celestia.