Love and Power: A New Dawn

A long night passed and a fatigued Luna and Gray Wings returned to Canterlot. Flash Sentry greeted Luna at the balcony. He could see she was very tired and asked, "Wow your Majesty, you look really tired. I take it you had a long night in the Everfree Forest?"

Luna replied, "Yes, we did. I ran into a few manticores, all of which needed to be put in their place and I ran into some of Twilight Sparkle's modified parasprites. Those things tried to eat my crown and tried to eat Gray Wings' armor. I wound up frying them with my energy."

Gray Wings added, "The manticores were bad enough but those parasprites seemed to be worse."

Flash interrupted, "Oh come on, those parasprites couldn't have been that bad."

Luna replied, "Oh so you think they couldn't have been that bad? Tell you what, how about you go out with me on my patrol tonight and I will take you to where they are. When the ones that I didn't kill swarm and begin to attack, I will teleport out of there and you can see what a royal pain they are."

Flash boasted, "Alright, you've got yourself a deal! I can handle parasprites without any problems!"

Luna said, "Look guys, I need to go lower the moon and raise the sun. Hopefully Celestia will get her flank home today."

While Luna was lowering the moon and raising the sun, Celestia and Twilight were just getting up. The sun shone in through the window and Twilight asked Celestia, "Celly, how is the sun coming up without you there to raise it?"

Celestia gave Twilight a gentle kiss and said, "Luna raised it yesterday and she is raising it again today. I have a feeling that she is enjoying this so now I don't think I will have to worry about her wrath so much."

Twilight replied, "Well I still think you better go back today. Besides, that will give you a chance to find a spell to make me more the size of Cadence."

Twilight and Celestia sat down to one more breakfast before she had to return to Canterlot. After eating Twilight was clinging to Celestia as she headed towards the door. Twilight asked, "Celly, please promise me that you will be back soon. I can't live without you. Please, will you promise me you will be back soon?"

Celestia got down at eye level with Twilight, she gave her a long passionate kiss. She then replied, "I promise you Twily, I will be back soon. Besides, I have plans for us when I come back again."

Twilight started jumping up and down and asked, "Celly, will we be able to shut ourselves in here for a week and it will be just you and me?"

Celesita replied, "Oh it will be something much bigger than that Twily. I want you to be surprised but let's just say that you will love it!"

Celestia gave Twilight one more long kiss before heading out the door and heading back to Canterlot. In Canterlot Luna, Gray Wings and Flash Sentry were in the dining hall eating breakfast. Gray Wings asked, "So Princess Luna, what are your plans after breakfast?"

Luna replied, "Well I plan on getting some sleep. After all the things we encountered in the forest last night I think both of us should get some rest."

Flash asked, "But your Majesty, I thought you were going to go look for Princess........."

Before Flash could finish his sentence Celestia came running into the dining hall. Before she could say anything Luna confronted her. Luna's eyes began to shine a bright white as she shouted, "PRINCESS CELESTIA, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN AND WHY DID YOU NEGLECT YOUR ROYAL DUTIES?"

Celestia just brushed her off and headed off to her room but Luna got in her way. She was going to get an answer. With her eyes still shining white she shouted, "ANSWER ME BIG SISTER!"

Celestia broke down crying and said, "Listen little sister, this is something that you could never understand."

Luna got up in her face and growled, "Look Celestia, all that matters is that you were unable to do your royal duty yesterday morning and you were missing last night and this morning. You and Twilight could have had a little sleep over and kissed all night long and that wouldn't be the big issue. The big issue is that I had to do YOUR royal duties."

Celestia got a stunned look on her face and cried, "MY TWILY, I MISS MY TWILY!"

Luna picked up Celestia with her magic and shouted, "Oh, so you were with 'your Twily' weren't you? What were you two doing, making plans to remove me from the throne?"

Celestia finally broke free from Luna's grasp and ran to her room crying, "My Twily, I miss my Twily, I need my Twily!"

Flash Sentry headed to go comfort Celestia but Luna got in his way. She growled, "Not another step Flash. Gray Wings will deal with her. I am going to get some rest. Since Twilight's LITTLE SLAVE is home now I can get some rest. Do not disturb me unless we are under siege."

Gray Wings headed into Celestia's room and stood there shaking his head when he saw Celestia completely covered up with her blankets sobbing. Celestia could sense somepony was there. She asked, "Who's there and what do you want? I just want to be alone right now."

Gray Wings replied, "Your Majesty, you really need to pull yourself together. Luna can't run the show alone."

Celestia peeked her head out from under her covers and said, "I don't want to talk to you. You are on HER side. You probably think I am pathetic like she does. JUST GO!"

As Gray Wings was leaving her room Celestia got up to look for her picture of Twilight but noticed it was gone. She cried louder, "MY PICTURE OF MY TWILY! WHERE IS MY PIC OF TWILY?"

Flash Sentry rushed past Gray Wings and headed in there. Celestia sobbed, "Flash Sentry, what happened to my picture of Twily?"

Flash Sentry replied, "Well you see, Luna kind of made me get it out of here so when you got home you would sleep instead of stare at it."

Celestia picked Flash up and went into a rage. She shouted, "YOU TOOK ORDERS FROM HER? Where is my picture of Twily? You give me my picture of Twily or you're going to the moon!"

Celestia set Flash down and he ran up to the archives and got the picture of Twilight and took it back to Celestia. When Celestia saw him coming she ripped the picture out of his wings and hugged it. She started crying, "My Twily, My sweet Twily! I need my Twily, I want my Twily! I have to have my Twily!"

Luna heard her cries and stormed into Celestia's room. Luna saw Celestia crying clinging to the picture of Twilight. Luna shouted, "BIG SISTER, WHAT THE HAY IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU ARE ACTING LIKE A LOVESICK TEENAGER!"

Celestia looked up at her sister and whined, "But I don't think you understand little sister, I want my Twily, I love my Twily, I need my Twily."

Luna's eyes began to shine a bright white again. She began to mock Celestia's cries, "oohh I want my Twily, I love my Twily, I need my Twily because if I don't have my Twily I might just die! WAAAAH!" Luna glared at her and continued, "Look, Gray Wings and I ran into a few manticores last night in the forest and I can't sleep with you whining and crying like this. Look, if you must cry and whine, do it quietly while the rational thinking princess gets her sleep."

Flash Sentry went over to comfort Celestia. She grabbed a hold of him and asked, "Flash, why is Luna so mean? How could she not understand my agonizing sadness?"

Flash replied, "It is just part of who Luna is. You are right about one thing, I don't think she will ever understand how you are feeling. The only ponies she ever grows close to are her royal guard members and she loves them like they are her children. I sometimes wonder if she even knows what romantic love is."

Celestia got up and looked Flash in the eyes. She asked, "You know that I love Twilight?"

Flash replied, "Yes your Majesty and I know she loves you too. I only removed the picture of Twilight from in here because I was scared that she might banish me to the sun if I didn't."

Celestia hugged Flash and said, "I am glad you understand Flash. Right now I feel like you and Twily are the only ponies I can trust."

Flash replied, "Thanks for the trust your Majesty. Don't worry, not a word of this will get to Luna. I better get going, I don't want Gray Wings to interrogate me and then have Luna yell at me later."

Celestia said, "Yeah and I probably better get out to the throne room. I don't feel like getting yelled at again."

Celestia headed out to the throne room hoping to restore some normalcy to her life but she just couldn't get Twilight out of her mind. She had tears rolling down her face and she continued to sob quietly about her Twily.