My Little Coffee Shop (A Romeo & Juliet Story)

Ponyville became a dark, cold town the minute the sun went down. Stars shone brightly above the small cottages the ponies slept in. All except three ponies were doing what the rest of their town was. Those three ponies were busy at work.

"There you go." Robin Quaver said, looking into the stallion's dreamy blue eyes.

"Thank you, uh, Robin... that is your name, right?" The brown pegasus asked.

"Yeah, that's me. Robin!" She chuckled.

"Hey, so do you want to meet me for lunch tomorrow?"

"Yes! Uh, I mean... yeah sure, whatever. Where?"

"What about at that new restaurant across from the coffee shop?"

"I'm available shortly after twelve... alright. I'll meet you there." Robin couldn't stop smiling.

After the pegasus left, she jumped up and down with excitement. If he knew it or not, she was going to think about like a date. Was he trying to ask her out without it being awkward? Did he like her the way she liked him? Whatever was going on, Robin didn't care. She liked him, and that's all that needed to be known.

Silver Shield approached the pegasus' home. The unicorn walked through the dark streets of Ponyville; the only sources of light being the stars, broken flickering streetlights, and his magic aura. He was carrying his gift for Robin.

The unicorn stallion walked through the village. Soon he had reached Robin's house, and he had done it just in time, too. The house was dark. It didn't matter if she was gone or inside; he wouldn't bother to know.

He sat his gift down in front of her door and left.

As Luna finished raising the moon, she had a weird feeling that something wasn't right. She turned down the hallway and went to her sister's room.

"Celestia..."

"Luna! Ugh... what do you want?"

"I feel... strange."

"Are you sick? Are you going to vomit? Where does it hurt?"

"No, not like that. I have a weird gut feeling. You know... when your conscious tells you something's wrong."

"Whatever could be wrong?"

"I don't know. But I feel that there is a horrible disaster soon."

"Don't fret, sister. We will figure this out. For now, go off and do whatever you were doing. And, I need to call in the royal guard. Could you possibly get them for me?"

"Yes, Celestia." Luna walked out of the princess' room. She still didn't feel right.

As the royal guard walked into the meeting room, Celestia looked at each one of them. Her pink eyes gazed over the ponies and scanned the room.

"If I may only speak with the same group from two days ago." Celestia ordered.

About two thirds of the stallions walked out and went back to their duty. After closed doors, Celestia covered herself in green fire. Queen Chrysalis was underneath.

"We are finally at were we need to be! Now that you are a part of this army, we will flee into the cities and feed off the pony's love!" The queen explained.

A stallion raised his hoof. "Queen, how will we do that? Your plan is rather, uh, strange this time!"

"I put out a new law saying that ponies can only marry within their own breeds, right?"

"Well, yes but-"

"There will be a huge protest about this! Everypony will want to marry somepony else. They will have so much love for the other pony that we can fly above through the sky abducting their love!"

"Are you sure they'll protest? This is Equestria we're talking about! These ponies are loyal and understanding of their princess!"

"Oh, just shut up. It's not like anypony knows what we're doing. And if we need to start a protest, you guys can just turn into plain, everyday ponies and start a protest for me!"

"You do have a good idea."

"Always! Now, let's get to work!" Queen Chrysalis transformed herself into Celestia, and her army marched out of the room.

"And remember my motto, the faster you deceive, the faster you'll feed!" She whispered as the 'royal guard' walked out.

Little did the citizens of Equestria knew that their fate was held in the hooves of an evil Changeling queen. Or was it?