Eclipse: An obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
Today was the day. Not just any day, but the day. 400 years ago today, the last recorded total solar eclipse occurred, and Celestia had no plans to miss it. She thought back to nights she spent with her younger sister under the moonlight, watching the stars in the sky. Looking up and finding "pictures" in the night sky specifically. "Like cloud watching in the daytime Tia!" as Luna liked to call it. It was very similar. What Celestia liked best about looking at the clouds in the morning or the night sky with her sister was not seeing funny images, or debating whether or not a cumulus looked like a ball or an orange, it was knowing she was making her younger sister happy. Celestia had always been revered by the ponies of Equestria for bringing beautiful sunrises and sunsets to the land, while Luna's moon rises were hardly seen or appreciated. There were many times when Celestia had to comfort her sibling.
"We are confused dear sister. We have followed the rules of raising and setting the moon, but we are not praised like you." Luna said.
"Have you tried to make the moon interesting for them?" Celestia suggested in a loving tone.
"On some nights we make the moon shine bright, to replicate the light your sun brings. They squint their eyes, and hide their bodies under their sheets so they can be in darkness. We have taken notice to this, so we have made the moon dark as to not give off any light at all." Luna said.
"Thats why it was so dark lately?" Celestia said.
"Yes. But when we did this they panicked. They were struck by fear and ran scared through the streets." Luna said.
Celestia paused and thought to herself, what could she do to make everypony like the moon?
"They do not like us. They only like you...." Luna started to cry.
It pained Celestia to see her in tears. She would have started to cry herself, but then she a brilliant, but risky thought.
"Have you ever thought of what the sun and moon look like together? We have thought of it before, but never remembered to ask you about it." Celestia asked.
Luna's curiosity kicked in and she thought about the image of the sun and moon sharing the sky. She always felt wonderful when she was close to Tia, so why not give it a try?
"We have, and thought maybe.............we could try it tommorow?" Luna said, tears still in her eyes.
"Sure." Celestia smiled.
The very next morning, Luna ran into Celestia's bedroom and nearly startled the poor mare.
"Tia Tia! Wake up!" Luna squealed with glee. "We are ready now!"
Celestia sighed. As much as she enjoyed her sister's smile, she didn't enjoy waking up so early in the morning.
Luna pranced out of the room, and Celestia slowly rose from her bed. Her hair was a mess despite it was always in motion, and she wondered how her younger sister managed to have perfect hair every day. She was always a beautiful young mare from the day she was born. "We are not as beautiful as you though Tia!". Luna always said that whenever she was complimented. In her eyes she just wanted to be as good as her "Tia".
Celestia walked out of her room, and saw sunlight glisten on the porch and in Luna's hair. Luna was equal in beauty with her elder sister, but in certain situations she was the most gorgeous mare in all of Equestria.
"C'mon Tia! We are waaaaaiiting!" She said playfully.
Trotting to her sister, she looked up at her sun. She already raised it when Luna was asleep early in the day and was absent-mindedly gazing at the sky.
"Ready?" She said innocently.
"Yes I'm ready." Celestia said. She was confident everypony would enjoy what she planned. From the time she woke up she had chosen the best course for the sun to be in the perfect position to compliment the moon. Luna had woken her up a bit too early however, and she knew it would be a few more minutes before the sun was in its prime.
"OK Tia, we want to know what you have planned. We know it will be good." Luna said.
Her eyes beamed like the moon and Celestia couldn't help but notice how cute she was.
"We don't have anything planned." She said. "We would like to hear what you think."
Luna almost exploded in joy and the stars in her mane nearly went super nova.
"Oh big sister! We have been thinking of so many ideas since you first told us!" She exclaimed.
"Well, lets get started then." Celestia said.
After a few minutes of brainstorming, Luna (not Celestia) came up with the perfect idea. Put the moon in front of the sun. It was originally going to be the other way around with the moon behind the sun, but Celestia wanted all eyes to be on her sister. Luna brought the moon directly in front of the sun, and Celestia held her breath. The sun started to mimic the moon and developed into a crescent like shape. The black orb of the moon creeped past the halfway point, and the sun was barely visible. Then there was the miracle. Sun and moon were both aligned, and rainbow colored ring formed around the crust of the sun/moon hybrid. Both of the royal sisters were awestruck, and for the next seven minutes, the colorful display of black, white, and every color in between captivated the entire countryside. After the event passed, there was silence.
"Tia.....do you think they liked it?" Luna asked.
"Yes.....I do." She said honestly.
Luna turned up to her sister. "Did you like it?"
One of Celestia's tears slid from her eyes, and rolled down her snout.
"No Luna. I loved it."
Centuries after that first eclipse Celestia still teared up.
"Aunt Celestia, we're going to miss it." It was her niece, Cadence.
"Right." Celestia said. She wiped her eyes with her hoof before Cadence could ask why she was crying.
As the two of them walked to the balcony, Celestia couldn't help but notice the similarities between her niece and her sister. She imagined down below, scores of ponies were assembled to watch the eclipse. As the moon went on its course and eclipsed the sun, Celestia felt there was something oddly familiar with her surroundings. It was just like her first eclipse. The position of the sun and moon, where she was standing, all of it was identical.
The sun started to develop its "phases", and the moon snuck across the sky, and engulfed the sun.
"Its very pretty isn't it?" Cadence asked.
Celestia sighed. "Yes, it is."
"You're thinking about her aren't you?" Cadence said.
"Yes. Everything is just like that day, all those years ago. The position of the moon, the colors, even the way you're standing. Just like that day......" Celestia said.
"I'm thinking about her too." Cadence bowed her head. "She's done so much for me."
She started to remember that fateful day of when she was first introduced to Princess Luna. They quickly became the best of friends, and the best prankers in Equestria. Celestia could attest to that. It was all worth it in the end, seeing the smug looks on their faces, turn into pure terror as she chased them around the castle, or got them back with an equally embarrassing prank. Shining Armor did his best to stay out of it.
Sadly, the fun gradually came to a grim end. A short twenty years after their marriage, Shining Armor became gravely ill. He contracted advanced form of the cutie pox. Nopony knew how he got it, but everypony was devastated at the news. Twilight stayed by her brother's bedside every waking moment. On the rare occasions she couldn't see him, she was trying to develop a cure for the disease along with Zecora. Cadence sang for him at least once a week, and Celestia made sure every sunrise he saw, was her best work.
Even with so many ponies caring for him, including the mane six, Shining Armor was only getting worse. Cadence cried night after night for him. It ate away at Luna, knowing her best friend was suffering. There is no type of magic that can bring the dead back to life in Equestria, but there is magic to extend it. The trade off spell. One unicorn uses their magic and gives their life force to another creature of their choice, and the said creature lives without harm for seventy years. Luna knew the spell, and knew it was the only way to make her friends happy once again.
"Um...why are we here again?" Fluttershy said.
"Silly filly! We're throwing a party for Shining Armor's birthday! And we have to make it eeeeextra special!" Pinkie Pie said.
"Really there's no need too. We can celebrate now." Shining Armor mentioned nonchalantly. Particularly because those cupcakes Pinkie made were looking extremely desirable.
"No can do! The party don't start till all the guests arrive. Princess Luna hasn't gotten here yet." Pinkie pointed out.
After a few cupcake-lust filled minutes, Luna walked in the hospital room door.
"Ready everypony?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"One, two, three, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHINING ARMOR!" They all sang in unison.
I hope I make you proud Tia. Luna thought.
Shining Armor and Luna started to glow, and nopony knew what was happening. Two bubbles enclosed on the already glowing ponies, and Twilight realized what was going on.
"Luna what are you crazy? Do you know what happens after that spell? Alicorns can't survive it please don't do it! Stop this!" Twilight screamed.
Luna did know. She knew even immortals would die from casting the spell. But it was the right thing to do in her eyes. She was helping her friends.
A mighty wind started to brew, and the whole hospital was shaking. Rarity nearly ruined her hair on the cupcakes that were being tossed around the room, along with the medical instruments around the bed.
"Good bye Tia." Luna said softly.
Shining Armor spent a marvelous 70 years after that incident with Cadence. They did have some foals, but they didn't share the luxury; or curse of immortality.
The sun and moon finished their wonderful show, and the sky returned to normal. For the two alicorns who were lost in their thoughts, things never returned to normal since that time when Luna was still alive. When everypony was smiling, laughing and enjoying themselves. Why couldn't it be like that again?
Celestia turned her attention back to the sky, and realized she had missed the ending of the eclipse. With slight disappointment she also noticed Cadence was starting to cry.
"Is everything alright?" Celestia asked her.
"No its not!" Cadence shouted. She ran off to her bedroom, and slammed her door.
"So much for somepony to talk to....." Celestia acknowledged, and feeling she had no reason to be at the castle, she decided to go for a walk in the obstacle course.
She passed the various statues of ponies and a certain draconequus, and for some odd reason, she wondered what it must have been like for Cadence to loose somepony she loved. Sure she loved Luna, but that was sisterly love not the kind of love between a colt and a mare. Had she even experienced that kind of love before? She searched her memory for it, but she had only suitors, not lovers. Ponies she would accompany to look good or make them compliment Luna. That was about it. And there wasn't exactly anypony she was fond of either. Well, perhaps there was one pony, or alicorn rather she had in mind. Cadence. Ever since she met her, there was something that drew her to the pink colored alicorn. She had some of the traits of Twilight, and some from Luna as well. The only problem with her niece was that she was a bit too moody.
Sometimes she was on top of the world, other times she was crying over Shining Armor. It was those times, every time really, she wanted to make a move on the unsuspecting mare. To hold her in her wings and make love with her. How could she deny she never truly felt love before? Simply because she was already in love! Lying to herself wouldn't help suppress her emotions. Besides Cadence's flaw of mood change, she was nearly perfect. A cute face, unmarried, (via technicality) and her flanks look delicious.
Celestia's wings slowly started to rise but she didn't care. The only things that could see her were the blind statues of the garden. Or so she thought. Through the small window in her room, Cadence had a great view of not just the garden, but of a certain white princess who was in that garden. She knew whenever Celestia was alone she would walk through the maze area, and occasionally acted irately to coerce her clueless aunt into showing her stuff outside. She loved having a good clop to the unsuspecting mare, more times then she would like to admit. In fact, she was starting right now.
As Celestia's wings hardened, she heard a soft noise. It sounded like somepony's hooves were stuck in the mud but it wasn't her. She looked around to see if there was somepony nearby, but again she didn't see any ponies.
Cadence licked the tips of hooves, and slowly guided them to her flanks. She started to tug at her outer lips, and felt some of her fluids leak out. Placing one hand on the glass window, she clenched her hoof between her thighs, and simulated the feel of a stallions cock. She rubbed her fore hoof back and forth through her legs, and her hooves, and the ground, were getting soaked. She was starting to move it faster, and inserted her hoof inside her. She moaned a bit, but it was out of pure pleasure. Taking one good look at Celestia, she closed her eyes and shoved her hoof in with full force.
Celestia's ears perked up; this time she had definitely heard some sort of squelching noise. She looked up and saw too her delight and surprise, Cadence in the raw. Her wings were already as hard as the statues around her, and seeing her niece in the window made her knees shake. The facial expressions Cadence made as she clopped were adorable in Celestia's eyes, and she couldn't help but stare.
As her hoof moved faster and deeper inside her, Cadence could no longer contain her moans. Her body started to move on its own, accepting the fantasy that she was riding the horn of Princess Celestia.
"Celestia....." She moaned.
She started the push on the glass window for support, and viciously attacked her lust. Her lower body rose a bit and she tightened every inch and crevice on her body.
"Almost.....ahhhh...."
Celestia was still dumbfounded by the slippery situation Cadence was in, too dumbfounded to clop herself. Instead she just continued to watch with open eyes, and a watering mouth.
"Nnnghhh....ahahhhh.....CELESTIA!" As Cadence screamed in her climax, she came with such force that she toppled through the glass in pleasure.
In her exctasy, she forgot to use her wings and hit the ground with a smack. She wasn't harmed however, but she was a bit disgruntled. Celestia finally snapped to reality, and rushed to the tasty looking mare's side.
"Are you all right? You aren't hurt are you?" Celestia asked with concern.
Cadence locked eyes with Celestia, and stared in horror. Had she seen her? If she did, did she like what she saw? Was she going to put me in bondage for breaking the window? Well to her, that wouldn't be so bad.
Noticing her pink friend was still shocked, she licked the tip of her horn, and started sucking out the magic. Pulled off and nibbled her ear. Cadence sighed in relief.
"Glad you're OK." Celestia whispered. She was utilizing the situation to finally make her move after all those sexless years.
"Yes I'm fine. I....I'm sorry for uh.....yelling earlier....wow." Cadence could barely speak. It was understandable of course, her fantasy was finally coming true.
"You have a plan of making it up to me I hope?" Celestia said seductively.
The white mare's eyes began to hypnotize Cadence. She just couldn't say no.
"I do..." She cleared her throat before continuing. "We should discuss it in your bedroom." She said with a crafty smile.
Celestia's eyes gleamed. "Sure."
As she helped Cadence off the ground, Celestia thought back to the first eclipse. It was definitely true. History does repeat itself. Especially when it involves two alicorns.
I wonder if she knows the same positions as you did Luna...... Celestia thought. Somewhere in the great beyond, Luna was watching, and is just as curious as her older sister, about Cadence's sexual knowledge.
It had been a wild night for Celestia. Very wild. Her feelings for Cadence were indeed mutual, and they learned a lot about each other. Of course it wasn't the kind of learning experience that we be considered suitable for royalty, but there was a loophole. No pony knew about their encounter, nor did anypony know the two alicorns played on both sides of the field. Luckily, both of them agreed to keep their relationship a secret.
As Celestia awoke from her bed she turned to the pink pony who lay beside her. She was still fast asleep, her top half was exposed, while her bottom half was under the warm cloud like sheets. Her mane was spread out and covered part of her face, her cheek specifically. Celestia admired Cadence's perfect mane for a few more minutes. Unfortunately her own mane wasn't as graceful. While she didn't get the genes for a perfect mane like Luna or bedfellow, she did get the genes for best flanks in the family. Oddly enough she didn't inherit this trait from her mother, but rather in an ironically poetic sense, her father.
While she did notice her father's flanks were nicer then her mother's, she didn't have any "relations" with him. This isn't to say she didn't have any relations with any family members though, oh no. Simply put, those side glances she made, the passing thoughts that caused her to blush, those were all the things that gradually edged her on into that taboo; incest.
Celestia laid back on her stark white pillow, and seemed to vanish. Her paper white complexity was supposed to represent pureness, "and proof that you are true royalty". She scoffed at that quote. She wasn't a corrupt princess, but she was far from pure. There was a time when the princess was "pure" in a sexual sense. Quite a long time ago though.
"No Luna.....I love it."
"Really Tia?"
For once, Celestia had broken the royal "we, us" and spoke straight from the heart. She couldn't help it. Whenever she became emotional in anyway, her true feelings shone through. While she did regret straying from the path of true royal etiquette, she was with her sister, there was no need to be formal.
"Tia,......" As her sister paused, Celestia started to worry. Not out of a fear of her sisters disappointment in the dazzling performance of the sun and moon, but fear of the unknown. She knew the types of pauses her younger sibling had, but this was not one of them.
"How do you tell somepony you like them?" As Luna finished her sentence Celestia let out a sigh.
"Well dear sister, we would first tell them we liked them when we had the courage to do so." She felt very proud as the elder to provide such advice on the early stages of courting.
"So we just say we like you? Just like that?" Luna had every reason to be confused. She never wooed anypony in her life.
"Yes. We like you. Simple correct?" Celestia smiled.
"We like you too."
"Hahah! Nice jest!" Perhaps her younger sister wasn't fit for royalty but for acting instead! She should suggest Luna as a candidate for the next theatre.
"Tia......we do not.....jest. We......like........you. M-more then sisters like...."
"Lovers?" The princess' pale fur didn't help hide her blushes.
"We see you are blushing.....have we embarrassed you sister? Oh we are sorry....." The voice that she made right before she began to cry, Celestia knew it by heart. She dreaded that voice, that high pitched cry.......because it made her cry too. She knew she had to stop it before it was too late, before the tears overflowed and created streams and rivers, and she did it in the only way she knew how.
"Don't cry....." She said softly. Their eyes met as Luna looked up from the floor, and their lips joined together. The taste of her younger opposite was sweet, like a fresh fruit from the gardens she loved to gallop in so much. The sun and moon are reportedly similar to the separate sides of a magnet, they are naturally attracted......
As they pulled apart their lips, a miniature game of tug and war broke out between the feelings of love, and the feelings of self doubt. Each time they came back for another kiss, they were tempted to pull away again and stay away from each other for a week or so. But they didn't. Instead the emotion of love shone through like the moonlight of Luna, or the sunlight of Celestia. After testing the waters with their lips, their tongues emerged into fray and did combat with the other, each one attempting to wrestle the other one down. Luna had no idea she could use her tongue for anything other then making faces, and was quickly subdued by Celestia's slightly longer, more skilled appendage.
"Tia" She said worriedly, "Do you think this is wrong?"
"No. We know this is love." Luna knew it too.
From those first kisses, a relationship bloomed. Her relations with her sister were confidential of course, just like the ones she was having with Cadence right now. During those years of Celestia's younger days, it wasn't abnormal for second or third cousins to participate in fornication, but true incest between fathers and daughters, sons and mothers, siblings with siblings, that was outlawed. Luckily, the pair were very good at keeping secrets. They had gotten out of a lion's share of trouble plenty of times when they were foals.
The law had no effect on royalty, but to the common pony, the law was life, and death. It controlled taxes, what you could and could not do, and eventually, who you could and could not do. Different thinking groups at the time had all come to the same conclusion, the pairings of mares with colts was perfectly acceptable. Mating or unions between same sex ponies, was somehow equal to worshiping dark forces in their eyes. The Princesses of course could not, would not stand for this ignorance, and tried discreetly, to sway public opinion. It had no effect however, and shunning started to turn into stoning. Celestia could only watch as her own denizens were fighting over such trivial matters, and for what? She knew nopony gained anything from violence, but she didn't know how to stop the trend.
Luna excelled in this area. Her kind heart protected ponies who suffered prejudice, and she was revered in the underground communities. No matter what either sister did, or how many times they did it, things still hadn't changed......until Luna of course.
When she first brought up the idea of "Nightmare Moon" Celestia couldn't help but laugh. She hadn't heard her sister use her old role-play name since they were foals. But when she heard the elaborate scheme to unite Equestria in an effort to fend off the "Queen of the Darkness" she was stunned. Her younger sister was just that, younger; but she had generosity, loyalty and wisdom far beyond her years.
After this great "battle" concluded, her younger sister was banished but, everypony was in harmony. Love of all kinds returned, but so did emptiness. While she greatly admired her sister's noble sacrifice, a thousand years was a long time to wait for her to come back. So Celestia used her cunning, and developed the perfect plan to see her lover every so often.
"Tia? Is that you? OH WE ARE FILLED WITH JOY TO SEE YOU HERE!" Celestia asked herself if anypony back in Equestria could hear her from the moon.
"Yes Nightmare Moon it is us." As she smiled, she enveloped her wings around Luna, and as they touched, their passion for each other ignited.
Celestia tasted those sweet lips once again, but there was something different. Ah, she had lost the wrestling match with her sister's tongue. She could argue that she was unprepared for it, but she didn't care for any title, she just cared for the mare on the moon.
She moved her hoof to the tips of her younger siblings erect wings, but Luna, not Celestia stopped.
"Is something wrong dear sister?" She was genuinely puzzled. After so many years of waiting, Luna had to be beginning for some sort of contact.
"Nothing Tia. We are just admiring your mane. Its beautiful."
"We...I love you." Celestia said. One stray tear floated away from her eye, and into the depths of space.
Luna responded by licking the white horn in front of her.
"Haaahhhh...." Celestia started to pant.
Luna flashed her trademark smile, and started coating the whole horn with her saliva. When she finished, she began to suck on the whole top half of it.
"Mmmfff."
Celestia was too focused on avoiding a climax so early and didn't even bother to try deciphering Luna's "words". She started bobbing her head up and down on the whole now, faster then before. Celestia could barely see in front of her, and caressed Luna's wings, coaxing her into slowing down the pace. The dark blue mare complied, and with a smile to boot. Celestia just sighed.
"You can lay down Tia. We can take it from here."
She laid down, not knowing what sexual mischief her younger sibling was up to. She saw the shadow of her sister move from her snout, to her flanks. Luna too laid down, and got comfortable. She pressed her slender tongue on the outside of Celestia's shaft, and squeezed it like an orange. The droplets of her sister's passion flew away and twinkled in the process. She did manage to capture a few drops in her mouth and swallowed them. Luna couldn't make out what flavor it was exactly, but it had the resemblance of.....a banana.
Celestia started to nibble on her hooves as her sister started to lap the source of the banana like flavor with her tongue, much like a kitten would do. She couldn't help but moan as her sister did this, and she started to leak even more fluids out into the universe. Luna guided her tongue into the depths of "Tia", and a wave of fluid dribbled out. As she pulled back out again, Celestia thought how did she get so good? She had bested her younger sibling in the art of fornication before, but perhaps now she had finally met her match.
Luna slid her horn underneath Celestia's dripping wet flanks, and gingerly teased her gates.
"Haaahnn." I can't even speak....ohh its too good.... Celestia thought.
"We hope you can last longer? There is still much we would like to try." As Luna said this she knew her sister was reaching her limit. It was almost cruel how she took advantage of it.
"Aaghh, yes yes we can." Celestia mumbled. She hadn't even been penetrated yet and her flanks were ready to give out.
"Do we sense weakness in that response?"
"Ahhaaaha shut it....." She knew her younger sister would understand her playful tone, they were very close after all.
Luna glared at the hole before her, and slammed her horn in. Her head shot up in surprise, and she let out a yelp. Cheeky cheeky. she thought.
As the two mare's wings throbbed, and both horns leaked out magic, both mares wanted it those feelings of love and acceptance, to last forever.
"But it didn't." Celestia sighed.
"What was that?" Cadence asked.
In her deep thoughts, she had completely forgotten she was in her bed chamber with Cadence.
"Oh, nothing. Just about to raise the sun." She blushed.
"Nothing? Thats quite a feat. Do you mind if I watch?"
She was like Luna. Always adoring and inquisitive.
"No of course not." Celestia smiled. As much as she wanted her sister back she was glad to have Cadence. Now Luna had something interesting to watch.
Cadence got out of the bed, (with her perfect hair) and approached her new lover. While the light from Celestia's horn was a bit bright, it was nothing compared to the sun. Effortlessly, the larger then life ball of flame rose from the fields of Sweet Apple Acres, and slowly made its way into the sky. Cadence rested her head on Celestia's neck, and the warmth of their bodies soothed their unintentional bruises from last night. As the two alicorns nuzzled, a strange, yet somehow familiar, taste graced their lips. With that sweet taste, Celestia felt the presence of another mare in the room. A young, wise, and kindhearted mare, who was far beyond her years in wisdom.
Fin
