A Jubilant Night

The night continues to progress and Luna and Flash Sentry continue their patrol until they get to the darkest part of the forest. Flash gets this scared look on his face and asked, "Your Majesty, it is so dark! Why would you lead us into this part of the forest?"

Luna replied, "This part of the forest always needs patrolled. We've been lucky so far, no manticores."

Flash Sentry sees a cloud off in the distance. With the dim light he can't make out what it is but with her superior eyesight, Luna can. Luna rockets skywards up into the canopy of the forest. Just a few seconds later she can hear Flash Sentry screaming, "No, my armor! Luna you led me here on purpose! Kill them, I'm begging you!"

Luna came down from the canopy and laughed, "Flash, I thought you said you could handle these parasprites with no problems!"

Flash continued to scream, "Ok, I am sorry. These parasprites are worse! You're right! Please kill them!"

Luna began to fire energy at the parasprites, frying them. While a few of them got away a majority of them were incinerated. Luna looked at Flash, who was visibly shaken, and snickered, "Flash, what the hay happened to your armor?"

Flash's armor had been completely eaten. He replied sarcastically, "Oh very funny your Majesty!"

Later that night Luna and Flash returned to the castle and were greeted by Yellow Eyes. Yellow Eyes began to laugh and asked, "Flash, what happened to your armor?"

Flash replied, "Well we run into some of Twilight's parasprites and they ate my armor! I didn't know those things could eat metal so easily."

Luna continued to laugh, "Oh and what was this about you going to make me eat crow Flash Sentry? You're the one who's eating crow!"

Yellow Eyes interrupted, "Oh, speaking of Twilight. I was flying around the castle keeping an eye on things and Celestia escaped out her window and took off towards Ponyville."

Luna shouted, "AND YOU DIDN'T TRY TO STOP HER?"

Yellow Eyes replied, "Let me finish. She was shouting to herself about how she was going to go get her Twily and take her to Las Pegasus and make her her wife and was shouting about how she was going to be gone for over a month."

The scowl on Luna's face transformed into a huge smile. She started jumping up and down shouting, "This is perfect! Equestria is mine, all mine!"

Gray Wings heard Luna's shouting and flew out to see what was going on. He asked, "Your Majesty, what is going on? Why are you so excited?"

Luna levitated Gray Wings over to her and hugged him. She asked excitedly, "Do you remember that ancient rule of my mom's regarding princesses and their royal duties?"

Gray Wings replied, "Yeah, I do."

Luna said, "Well guess what, my sister is going to be with Twily and they are going to be gone for over a month!" Luna continued to jump up and down shouting, "YES, YES, YES, YES!"

Flash asked, "Uh, Luna, does this have something to do with Celestia abdicating the throne and you becoming the queen of Equestria?"

Luna replied, "Yes Flash, it does!"

Flash breathed a sigh of relief. He replied, "Finally, we won't have an overly emotional princess on the throne who makes poor judgements. Instead, we will have an intelligent, strong, rational thinking QUEEN on the throne!"

Luna said, "Yep. All we have to do is wait for her to miss fourteen days of royal duties and after I lower the moon and raise the sun on the morning of the fifteenth day, I will officially be Queen Luna."

Gray Wings hugged Luna and said, "Well we will have to organize a coronation ceremony of the ages!

Luna replied, "Well we will have to wait until the fifteenth morning before we organize that. I don't want to jinx things!"

While Luna and the royal guardsponies are up in Canterlot talking about the rise of Luna to Queen Celestia lands in Ponyville. It is still a while before Luna will raise the sun so she sneaks over to the library and knocks on the door. Twilight hears the knocks and is not thrilled about being bothered at night. She yelled, "Who the hay is waking me up at this hour."

Celestia shouts, "Twily, it's me!"

Twilight jumps up off her bead and rushes down stairs. She opens her door to find her beloved Celestia standing there. Twilight clung to Celestia and said, "Come on in Celly, before anypony else sees you."

Celestia and Twilight went in and put a powerful lock spell on the door. Celestia got down to eye level with Twilight and gave her a long, passionate kiss. They embraced and began to cry tears of joy. Celestia said, "You see Twily! I promised you that I would be back!"

Twilight replied, "I'm so sorry to have even had a tiny bit of doubt Celly." She clung even tighter to Celestia and asked, "Celly, what are those plans you discussed when you left last time?"

Celestia replied, "We will talk about that in the morning but I do hope maybe we can shut ourselves in here for a few days and just relax"

Twilight enthusiastically agreed to it but she then asked about being transformed to being the size of Cadence. Celestia said to her, "Of course I can do that! I was so stressed last time that I forgot I already knew that spell!"

Twilight hugged her tighter when Celestia asked, "Twily, I do have a question. Why do you only want to be the size of Cadence?"

Twilight replied, "Well first we will be able to hug and kiss with no problems that way but I do still want to be smaller than you."

Celestia asked, "Twily, why are you so insistent on being smaller than me still?"

Twilight replied, "Ok, you can make me more the size of Luna but I just want to be smaller than you. It is just what feels right to me."

Celestia asked, "Well it is whatever you want. Do you want to do this now?"

Twilight replied, "Yes, I would love to do this now!"

Celestia had Twilight stand in front of her. She began to glow softly, she pointed her horn at Twilight and recited, ""The small one wishes they were tall so that they won't have to crawl, with height their future is bright and everything will be alright, for the small one is small no more, with height their happiness shall be galore."

Celestia fired her energy at Twilight. Twilight began to grow until she reached the size of Luna. Twilight ran to Celestia and embraced her tightly. She began to cry tears of joy and said, "Thank you Celly, thank you!"

Celestia replied, "Anything for you Twily. I just want to make sure you are happy. When you are happy I am happy."

Celestia looked deep into Twilight's eyes and moved closer to her. She began to kiss her passionately. Twilight's heart melted as she had never felt that kind of warmth before. Twilight asked, "Celly, I'm kind of tired. Do you think we could go to bed for a while before we eat breakfast?"

Celestia kissed Twilight gently and replied, "Of course we can!"

Celestia and Twilight headed up to her bed, which was now kind of small for Twilight, much less her and Celestia together. Celestia pulled Twilight close to her and realized that her dream of her and Twilight falling asleep together forever had become reality.