The Consequences of Love

After Luna did her royal duties they had a massive feast and then a short meeting afterwards. The new queen stood before everypony else to make sure they were all on the same page. Luna asked, "Alright everypony, now that Celestia and Twilight have been punished for their crimes, do any of you have any questions regarding the future of the new Equestria?"

Lyra asked, "Yes, I do. I know Colgate will be returning to Ponyville and I will be staying here. Will I be taking care of raising and lowering the sun?"

Luna replied, "That is a very good question Lyra. The answer to that question is no. For an Alicorn to handle celestial bodies such as the sun and moon, she or he must be born an Alicorn."

Lyra sighed and asked, "What sort of duties will I have?"

Luna replied, "You will handle the daytime duties, such as holding court. You will handle petty squabbles between the citizens of Equestria. Now the felony issues, I will handle. You will also be responsible for meeting with foreign dignitaries and planning whatever activities that will include meeting with them."

Lyra was getting a bit agitated. She asked, "What will you be doing?"

Luna replied, "Well I will be doing what I have always done. I will be doing my night patrols and like I said, I will handle serious issues, such as felony cases and when leaders of other nations visit, I will be up to handle that. Of course I will be up when mom and dad come to visit!"

Galaxia smiled and said, "Well I know that is a given!"

Applejack asked, "So when will we be getting to go home now since the punishments are complete?"

Luna replied, "Well you can either catch the late train home tonight or you can leave tomorrow morning, it is whichever you prefer."

Luna had a wonderful feeling within her now that things were back to normal. Finally, she could resume her night patrols with Gray Wings and her parents could return home. Before her and Gray Wings headed out to do their patrol Rarity asked, "Queen Luna, once Celestia finishes her sentence and returns, will she be able to be a princess again?"

Before Luna could reply Galaxia interrupted, "No, she will not be able to be a princess. In the laws I wrote in ancient times it states that she abdicated the throne. She will never be able to be a princess again because she is now forever unfit to rule."

Spike asked, "I know she was really mean after she was crowned a princess, but what about Twilight?"

Luna replied, "Chances are she will be in the void forever. Even if I was to decide to release her, she would also be deemed unfit to rule. Also, since she has not had them for that long, her wings would be removed. But, like I said, she will most likely be in there forever."

Pinkie asked, "What about when Celestia returns? Will she remember anything about Twilight?"

Galaxia replied, "Yes, she will. Her being imprisoned in the sun is a bad enough punishment but once she returns her desire to be with Twilight will still be there and she will know that she will never see her again. That will be the most excruciating punishment ever."

Luna laughed, "Yeah I can see her going into hiding and crying her eyes out for all eternity. Alright guys, Gray Wings and I have to go, we have a patrol to do and I'm sure we will have plenty of manticores to deal with!"

Life finally returned to normal. Princess Colgate returned to Ponyville and resumed seeing patients, Rarity was able to re-open her boutique, Applejack returned to Sweet Apple Acres, Rainbow Dash returned to handling the weather for Ponyville, Fluttershy returned home and spent plenty of time with her woodland friends who missed her dearly, Pinkie Pie returned to help the Cake Family run Sweet Apple Acres and Luna's parents returned home to rule Alicorn Island.

The only pony that didn't have her normal life resume was Princess Lyra. Yes she continued to perform in concerts, many times with her friend Octavia, but also she had a lot to learn about handling the duties of a princess, which Luna helped her learn. Eventually she ran the daytime activities better than Celestia did and all of Equestria benefited from it.