Royal Romance

That night the reception went off without a hitch, Applejack's food was perfect and Pinkie nailed it when it came to the music and festivities that would take place. As Twilight and Celestia were getting into their carriage, Twilight realized she forgot to throw the bouquet so she got back out and tossed it. Rarity was standing in the crowd and as she saw it coming, she shoved everypony else out of the way. When she caught it she shouted, "MINE!"

Everypony scowled at Rarity but unlike after Cadence's wedding, she did not surrender the bouquet. She was dancing around shouting, "I'm the next one to get married, I'm the next one to get married!"

As the carriage carrying the new couple headed out of town and the crowd was dispersing, Cadence stood by Luna and asked, "Luna, now that Celestia and Twilight will be living together in Ponyville and most of the royal duties will be yours, how do you plan on doing things?"

Luna replied, "Well we think that we shall change things to where everything will happen at night. Court will be held at night, all meetings involving foreign dignitaries that take place in Canterlot shall take place at night and unless we have to travel, we shall continue to sleep during the day as we do now"

Cadence asked, "So basically you are going to continue to be a nocturnal pony?"

Luna replied, "Yes, that is what our plans are. Thy Princess of the Night has been a nocturnal pony since birth and she has no plans on changing that."

Cadence asked, "Well what if foreign dignitaries refuse to meet with all of us at night?"

Luna replied, "Well we may have to make some adjustments to our schedule for that but for pretty much everything else, it will happen at night."

The following two weeks flew by for Celestia and Twilight as they had the time of their lives during their honeymoon. When they returned to Ponyville they were greeted by Luna and Cadence in the library. When they opened the door and saw the other two princesses in there Celestia shrieked, "How did you two get in here?"

Luna snickered, "Oh silly sister, you know we can teleport and besides, we need to speak with thee and thy wife over thy housing arrangements."

Twilight asked, "Yeah, I figured you would. While I love it here in the library it will be way too cramped for Celestia and I both to live in here. Celestia sweetie, do you think we could get Canterlot's finest builders to build our castle for us?"

Celestia replied, "Why do that and have to wait a long time for our new home to be built when we can use our magic to create our new home?"

Twilight asked, "But what are we going to do as far as the library goes? I don't want to give it up or at least not be able to have access to all the books in there."

Luna replied, "Twilight, we are not sure as to whether this is true or not but we have heard many rumors that nopony here ever checks out any books. Is that true?"

Twilight replied, "Yes, it is." She smiled at Celestia and asked, "Celestia, would it be ok if I simply moved all the books into our new castle with us?"

Celestia replied, "Of course it would. I could never take away one of the things that makes you so happy!"

Spike was upstairs sleeping when he was awoken by their discussion. He headed downstairs and asked, "Twilight, was I dreaming things or did I hear something about you having your own castle now?"

Twilight replied, "We don't yet but very soon Celestia and I will."

Spike asked, "So the rumors of you two living here in Ponyville are true?"

Twilight replied, "Yes Spike, they are."

Luna pointed her wing towards the door and said, "Alright everypony, let's get this done. It is going to require massive amounts of energy and Cadence and I have to travel home today."

They all headed out to the south end of town where the four princesses stood side by side. They all began to focus deeply and began to levitate off of the ground. Their eyes were shining a bright white and powerful bolts of energy shot out of their horns. This lasted for around ten minutes when suddenly a large castle appeared before them. Once the energy stopped flowing out of them and they returned to the ground, they were exhausted. Spike was amazed by this. He ran up to Twilight and asked, "Twilight, is that where we're going to live?"

Twilight wearily replied, "Yeah, this is where we are going to live now."

Celestia added, "And guess what Spike? You'll have your own room now too. Isn't that exciting?"

While Spike had always wished he could have his own room he knew that he would miss sleeping in his basket at the foot of Twilight's bed. He knew that he would miss just being able to talk to her in the middle of the night if something was bothering him. He asked, "Twilight, Celestia, would I ever be able to sleep in there with you two because sometimes I like to just talk in the middle of the night."

Twilight replied, "I'm afraid not Spike. Since Celestia and I are married now you won't be able to stay in there. There are things that married couples do that are meant to be private, things that aren't meant for baby dragons to be exposed to."

Spike sighed in sadness, "Ok, I understand."

Celestia interrupted, "Don't worry though Spike. We'll always be here if you need to talk during the daytime and besides, there should be plenty more to eat."

Spike's eyes lit up and he asked, "More to eat? Really?"

Celestia replied, "Yeah, really!"

It was a bit later in the afternoon than they had thought and after using so much energy in creating a new castle, all four princesses were exhausted. Cadence asked, "I don't mean to be a bother you two but do you think that I could spend the night. I'm horribly exhausted."

Luna added, "As are we."

Twilight replied, "I'm sure there aren't any shortage of bedrooms in there. Let's go in and take a look."

They headed into the castle and sure enough, there were more than enough bedrooms although they were all on the separate side of the castle from where Twilight and Celestia's master suite was located. As they walked around in there Luna commented, "Wow, this place is amazing!"

They found the master suite and headed in, it was even fancier and more majestic than Celestia's bedroom up in Canterlot is and it was so elegant that it put Luna's sleeping chambers to shame. Luna had an idea. She figured that since her sister would no longer be using it that she would see if she could have her old room. "Big sister, since thou is going to live here now, may we have thy old bedroom?"

Celestia figured this would happen. She replied, "Well Luna, since I won't be living there anymore, yes you can have it and I have a feeling that you will probably have upgrades added to it so it will be like this one."

Luna laughed, "Thou knows us much too well!"

Twilight asked, "Well Celestia shall we show these two the rooms they will be staying in and show Spike his room?"

Celestia replied, "Sure."

When they got to Spike's new room it was beyond what the dragon could ever imagine. No longer would he be confined to a small basket, but instead he would have a good sized bed. Spike hoped up on his new bed and it was the most comfortable thing he had ever felt. He said, "Wow, thank you Twilight! This is the most comfortable bed I have ever sat on!"

Celestia laughed, "Oh just wait until you lay in it. You'll probably never have another sleepless night again in your life."

After they finished checking out the rest of the palace their stomachs were growling loudly. Celestia asked, "Twilight, what shall we have for supper?"

Twilight replied, "I'm not sure. We'll have to eat out until we can get some chefs hired because after all, I'm not that good of a cook!"

Celestia laughed, "Neither am I Twilight. I don't even remember the last time I had to cook anything."

As they headed out to supper Twilight and Celestia were as happy as they could be. Their dream that they had had for years had finally come true, they were married, they had their own palace and they could live a fairly stress free life. Luna was happy as well since she could finally take on the responsibilities that a princess is supposed to have and even more, now she would be the primary princess in Equestria. No longer would she always be stuck in her sister's shadow. A new era in Equestria had begun, one which held a bright future but was still under the threat of ancient villains returning from their prisons. This would wind up becoming reality much sooner than anypony would have expected and the villain that will soon return will be far more evil and destructive than all of the previous villains combined.