The Consequences of Love

After they finished supper and after Luna done her royal duties everypony gathered in the throne room for an important meeting. Luna stood before them and said, "Alright everypony, we have serious things going wrong regarding both my sister and Twilight Sparkle that must be addressed."

Galaxia asked, "Princess Luna, would you and Twilight's former friends please tell us everything you know?"

Luna replied, "Of course mom! That is what this meeting is all about."

Luna started, "Alright, I know some of you already know this but things began to get strange as soon as Twilight was crowned princess. Celestia suddenly became obsessed with Twilight and she began to act like she couldn't even live without her. I will admit, I thought it was kind of creepy."

Galaxia asked, "What sort of things would she do and say?"

Luna continued, "Well she suddenly started calling Twilight 'my Twily' and one night she stayed up all night long staring at a picture of Twilight. She was so tired the following morning that she was not even able to raise the sun. I had to do it for her."

Cosmos said, "Wow, this new princess seems to have quite a hold on her."

Luna added, "Yes, she does. Despite not being able to raise the sun that morning, Celestia still had plenty of energy to fly to Ponyville to see Twilight. She then did not return until the following day. Personally I think she spent the night with Twilight but I can't be sure."

All of Twilight's former friends realized that their suspicions were right. They then knew for sure that Twilight had something strange going on with Celestia with her saying that Celestia was the only one allowed to touch her and involving her anger over Flash looking for Celestia. Galaxia looked at Twilight's former friends and asked, "You six live in Ponyville and probably saw various things first hand, we would like to know what happened regarding both our daughter and this Twilight Sparkle."

Spike replied, "Alright, what Luna has said is true since we told her quite a bit about what has happened already."

Applejack added, "Also Your Majesty, after Twilight came out of the library once her and Celestia had their sleep over, she didn't seem right. She was screaming and yelling at us, she got mad at Spike who hugged her, she shouted something about Celestia being the only pony allowed to touch her."

Fluttershy continued, "Yeah and then she joined us for some snacks at Sugarcube Corner and when Applejack asked if Flash had found Celestia she went into a rage shouting something about Luna sending Flash to take 'her Celly' away from her. She then stormed back to the library. We went to go check on her and we heard her screaming, crying and kicking things from outside."

Cosmos shook his head and said, "Wow, this Twilight Sparkle sounds like a real hothead."

Rarity nodded her head and replied, "When she gets mad, she is. When we heard all the crying Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flew up to the second floor window and looked in."

Rainbow added, "We saw her staring at a picture of Princess Celestia crying. She was saying something about how she hated them, probably meaning us, and was begging Celestia to come take her away and marry her."

Galaxia was very quickly becoming panicky. She had a fear that Twilight had complete and absolute control over her daughter and was using a victim mentality to manipulate her. She asked, "What happened next?"

Rarity continued, "Well we were concerned about her so I used my magic to unlock her door. We sent Spike in first because we believed she would be less likely to attack him. Unfortunately for Spike, we were wrong."

Galaxia looked at Spike and asked, "What did Twilight do to you?"

Spike replied, "Well she saw me, yelled at me, started firing energy beams at me then picked me up and threw me into a bookcase. After that she screamed and yelled demanding I clean it up."

Pinkie continued, "Yeah and then we all went in to try to get her to calm down and she only got madder, accused us of being spies for Luna and started striking us with her energy. That energy of her's really burns."

Fluttershy finished, "Finally Rarity was able to strike her back. After she yelled at us some more we all ended our friendships with her. Once we left we could hear her continue to scream, cry and kick holes in the wall."

Gray Wings was there and interrupted, "Wait a minute, it sounds like all this happened the day before Celestia sneaked out of her window in the middle of the night."

Luna continued, "I think it was. It was Yellow Eyes who told me about how Celestia was shouting something about going to be gone for over a month and marry Twilight. Three nights after I was given that information I saw those two flying off in the direction of Las Pegasus."

Galaxia's jaw dropped open. She looked at Luna and asked, "Luna, if she is gone for anything longer than two weeks you know what that means don't you?"

Luna replied, "Once I was studying in one of the old books you wrote and it said something about an unexcused absence longer than fourteen days resulting in abdication and the other becoming queen."

Galaxia replied, "That is true my daughter. If she has not returned by the fifteenth morning and you raise the sun for her, she will have legally abdicated the throne and you will become queen."

Luna smiled and replied, "I know." She then pointed her hoof over at Colgate and Lyra, who were remaining quiet throughout the meeting and said, "I also know that if this happens that I will need to transform two unicorns into Alicorns and make them princesses."

Galaxia has a sixth sense about which ponies would make good Alicorns and which ones wouldn't. She smiled at the two and said, "I can tell just by looking at you two that you will make great Alicorns." She then walked up to Colgate and asked, "There is something special about you. I can't quite put my hoof on it but I know you are special."

Colgate smiled and replied, "Well I don't know if I would say that Your Majesty. I'm just your average Time Lady who is also a dentist."

Lyra interrupted, "Colgate don't sell yourself short. Tell her about that spell you wrote."

Galaxia asked, "I knew there was something special about you! What kind of spell did you write?"

Colgate replied, "Well back when Twilight was just a unicorn Celestia came to town to visit. Her tooth started hurting really bad so Twilight brought her in for me to take a look at her."

Galaxia interrupted, "Wait a minute, Twilight got her to let you take a look at her. I am surprised she would even come within a hundred feet of your office, much less let you examine her."

Colgate continued, "Well I discovered that she needed a root canal. She would not let me do it unless I wrote a spell for a pain free root canal. I really wanted to get that taken care of so I did a lot of studying and was able to write the spell. It worked like a charm on her and all of my patients absolutely love it."

Galaxia said, "Well I am thinking I just found my new dentist. Since you can do that, despite you being an ocean away, I want to be a regular patient of mine."

Luna interrupted, "Mom, ok you know Colgate but the pony next to her is Lyra Heartstrings."

Galaxia walked over to her and said, "I can tell you have a very level head on your shoulders. I believe that Luna was right in picking you along with Colgate to be transformed into princesses."

Lyra replied, "Thank you your Majesty!"

Cosmos asked, "Well honey, what do we do now? I know you are the one who created all these rules regarding what Luna and Celestia's duties are and what happens in the event of abdication."

Galaxia replied, "Everypony here needs to stay here until Celestia returns, whether she is still a princess or whether Luna is queen. I hope that won't be a problem for any of you."

Everypony had no problems with staying there as long as Galaxia needed them. While Colgate was frustrated realizing that a lot of her patients would have to reschedule she knew that she had better stay, especially with Galaxia ordering it.