Colgate's Practice 2: A Royal Problem

After three hours of non-stop flying the three arrived in Canterlot where they were greeted by Gray Wings, the head of Luna's royal guard. He saw that Cadence was gone and that in her place were two unfamiliar Alicorns. He asked, "Your Majesty, where is Princess Cadence and who are these two?"

Luna replied, "Follow us to the throne room and thou shall find out."

He followed the three Alicorns into the throne room and once they arrived he asked, "Princess Luna, so what was it you were going to tell me?"

Luna smiled and replied, "Gray Wings, Cadence and Twilight are dead. We are the only remaining monarch here in Equestria."

Gray Wings asked, "Does this mean what I think it means?"

Luna replied, "It might. We want thou and the rest of our guard to notify the citizens here in Canterlot that they are to gather at the base of our balcony for an important address tomorrow at noon."

"Yes your Majesty" Gray Wings replied. While he headed to round up the rest of the guard to notify the citizens of Canterlot of Luna's address, Luna looked at the two new Alicorns and said, "Alright, we have decided what sort of role you two shall play in my Equestria."

Amethyst asked, "And what is that your Majesty?"

Luna replied, "Colgate, we want you to be the head of the Equestrian Dental Association and Amethyst, you will be her assistant."

Colgate asked, "Does this mean that I will have to give up my practice and move up here to Canterlot."

Luna laughed, "Goodness no dear Colgate, thou and thy hygienist shall continue to run thy practice in Ponyville but we do have two big surprises for thou."

Colgate asked, "What is that?"

Luna replied, "First, we are giving you full control over dental issues in Equestria. Thou are to force proper oral hygiene upon not just the ponies of Ponyville, but all of Equestria."

Colgate got a huge smile on her face as she had always wanted to do that but had no clue how this would be accomplished. She asked, "Your Majesty, how will we accomplish this? I would need access to every dental record in the country and I would need a way to punish those who don't practice proper oral hygiene."

Luna replied, "We shall enforce a law that requires all dental records to be immediately accessible by thee and we shall grant thou a special army which will abduct bad patients and bring them to thou so that thou may punish them anyway thou sees fit."

Colgate was ecstatic upon hearing this. She asked, "Thank you your Majesty but where will Amethyst and I torture them?"

Luna replied, "We are seizing that castle that used to belong to Twilight. The basement shall become the dungeon and the rest of it shall become thy residence."

Amethyst asked, "What about me?"

Luna replied, "Thou shall move in there with Colgate. We feel it is best if both of you lived in there and besides, we know that you two are quite close."

While Colgate and Amethyst were thrilled when Luna said that they would be living in the castle together, Colgate wondered how Luna knew they were quite close. She asked, "Your Majesty, how did you know that Amethyst and I are really close?"

Besides being able to pick up on negative energy Luna can also pick up on many other types of energy as well. She smiled and replied, "We can just tell by the way you two interacted when we come to see you. Normally a dentist and her hygienist don't interact the way you two do." Luna smiled, nudged them and continued, "We want you two to stay up here for our coronation tomorrow. Thy bedroom is up those stairs and is the third door on the right."

While Colgate and Amethyst headed up to their bedroom Luna headed to the dining hall to have an afternoon snack. She knew that if her parents were around they would be extremely angry over what she was going to do the next day but she didn't care. She began to jump up and down like a school filly and shouted, "Queen Luna! Finally tomorrow I will be Queen Luna!"

That night after supper Colgate and Amethyst joined Luna in the throne room to prepare her for the coronation the next day. They made her a larger, much more elegant crown and a more elegant chest plate to go with it, and as Colgate had suggested out at the bunker. Using their Alicorn magic they secured diamonds in the shape of Luna's cutie mark, a crescent moon, on both her crown and chest plate. Luna asked, "So will we be going out there with our new regalia on or will we have them placed on us in front of the crowd?"

Colgate replied, "Well if it is ok with you, Amethyst and I were thinking we could place your new regalia on you as Gray Wings formally introduces you as Queen Luna."

Luna spread her wings as wide as they could go and got a huge smile on her face. She replied, "Yes, let's do it that way! Thy Queen finds thy idea most exciting!"

After Luna, Colgate and Amethyst finished preparations for the next day's festivities, Luna flew out to do a quick patrol of the night while Colgate and Amethyst headed up to bed. Colgate and Amethyst crawled into bed and pulled each other close. Amethyst said, "Wow Colgate, it feels so good for it to just be the two of us."

Colgate replied, "I know. I loved Sea Swirl but I just couldn't have a pony loyal to Twilight as a potential threat. Besides, it finally feels like we are in a real relationship."

Amethyst kissed her and said, "I know. Good night Colgate, love you."

Colgate kissed her back and replied, "Love you too Amethyst."