Twin Desires: The Tale of Two Ponies Who Want Twilight

The following morning the sun shone into Twilight's room. She was able to get a tiny bit of sleep after her visit from Fluttershy but not much. She sat up and wiped the sleep out of her eyes. She glared at the sun and said, "Ugh......couldn't Celestia have waited a bit longer?"

Like she would when she was her student, Celestia came to Twilight's room to get her up. She said, "Twilight, I thought you would be up sooner. Today is your big day!"

Twilight smiled, "I know, I just couldn't sleep much last night."

Luckily for both Twilight and Fluttershy, nopony other than Rarity knew about their tryst so everything would go according to plan. Celestia said, "Well we should probably get down to breakfast. All of us, especially you, have a long day ahead of us."

Twilight nodded and headed down to the dining hall to find all the other princesses, her brother and her parents there. There was an empty chair between Fluttershy and Cadence so Twilight sat there. Fluttershy and Twilight touched wings and smiled at one another, which brought a bit of suspicion from Luna. Luna asked, "Twilight, Fluttershy, what wast that about?"

Twilight knew that she had to lie both for her and Fluttershy. She replied, "That is just Fluttershy's way of saying 'congratulations' to me. I know she was very opposed to me marrying Flash Sentry at first but now she is happy for me."

Everypony knew it was a lie. Luna gave Fluttershy an odd look and asked, "Fluttershy, why didst thou change thy opinion of Twilight getting married?"

Fluttershy replied, "Well I just don't want her to have any more stress than she already has."

Rarity added, "I too had my concerns about Twilight marrying him but I realize that whatever makes Twilight happy is most important."

Twilight could tell that she did have two friends that were supportive of her while everypony else, including her family, was not impressed with her choice. She replied, "Thank you girls. I know everything will be just fine."

Luna mumbled, "Give it a month and thou will wish thou had never even heard of Trash Sentry."

Twilight asked, "What did you say Luna?"

Luna repeated herself loud enough that everypony could make out what she said. While everypony else at the table laughed at what she called him, Twilight pretended to be mad, after all she couldn't just give away her true plans. She glared at her and sneered, "Oh that's so funny I forgot to laugh."

The rest of their breakfast went on normally as they dropped discussions of the wedding. While it seemed like Fluttershy and Rarity supported Twilight, Luna could tell something was up but was not about to tell everypony. Once they finished their meal they headed off to get ready for the ceremony. In the throne room Luna and Celestia were discussing their concerns. Celestia asked, "Luna, is it just me or does it seem like Rarity and Fluttershy are up to something? They were so opposed to this but now they support it? Something doesn't seem right."

Luna replied, "It doesn't. We can't help but wonder if they have some sort of plan to sabotage this wedding, if they have plans to get Twilight to see the real Flash Sentry?"

Celestia asked, "How the hay would they do that? I doubt they have any pictures of him engaging in activities that Twilight would not approve of. Besides, he has her so brainwashed that even if she were to see him soliciting a prostitute, that she would simply think she was imagining things."

Luna sighed, "Thou are right. She is beyond hope."

In her room Twilight was biting her hooves. She was not nervous about how she was going to dump Flash at the altar and hopefully marry Fluttershy, she was more concerned with how everypony else would react. Her mare of honor, Princess Cadence walked in and saw this. She asked, "Twilight, why are you so nervous?"

Twilight replied, "I'm just worried about how everypony will react when I do what I plan on doing."

Cadence asked, "What are you planning on doing?"

Twilight replied, "Well last night Fluttershy paid me a little visit. Well let's just say that she showed me the best time of my life and I finally realized that she loves me and the love for her that I have hidden away for so long finally came to the surface." She went from being nervous to being giddy and continued, "I can't wait to marry Fluttershy! The reaction on Flash's face will be priceless when I dump him at the altar."

Cadence's look of concern changed to one of pure happiness. While she hoped that Fluttershy showing Twilight the time of her life would cause her to choose her over Flash, she never imagined that Twilight would not only want to leave Flash, but to dump him at the altar in front of many ponies, causing him a great amount of heartache and embarrassment. She embraced Twilight and asked, "So how do you plan on doing this?"

Twilight got more giddy as she continued, "Well I will walk up to the altar like every other bride would. Celestia will go through all the formalities and then when she asks whether we will accept one another in all the good and bad times, yadah...yadah...yadah... He will say yes naturally, then she will ask me. I will motion for Fluttershy to come up by me. I will throw the ring on my horn at Flash and yell HELL NO, grab Fluttershy, say I will take her and then kiss her passionately."

Cadence laughed, "That will be quite the sight. I know everypony will be happy!" Cadence broke the embrace and continued, "Well we better all get dressed. The ceremony will be here before we know it."

Twilight nodded and began to get dressed. In the VIP room that Twilight's friends were staying in they were all getting dressed but things just didn't seem to be right with Fluttershy and Rarity and Applejack was going to find out. She asked, "Fluttershy, Rarity, at first y'all were so opposed to Twilight getting married, especially you Fluttershy. What's with the change?"

Fluttershy replied, "Well um...."

Applejack asked, "Wait a minute, y'all know something the rest of us don't, don't you? Did Twilight change her mind?"

Fluttershy replied, "No. We have just decided to be happy for Twilight. We don't want to lose her friendship."

Rainbow rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah, whatever you say Fluttershy. I know something is up."

Pinkie added, "And whatever it is will wind up in us throwing a party!"

Fluttershy gave Pinkie a smile knowing that would be the case. She knew that she would not have to worry about the princesses being upset over this and she certainly wouldn't have to worry about Twilight's family being upset. The only thing she would have to worry about would be Flash's reaction. She knew though that if he went after her that there would be four Alicorns to stop him in his tracks and in the case of Luna, probably kill him.

Over at Blueblood's castle things were rather stress free but in his true form, Blueblood was not overly talkative towards the pony he considered a commoner. Flash asked, "So your Majesty, what do I do with Twilight after I am married to her."

Blueblood rolled his eyes as he thought that was the stupidest question he ever heard. He asked in return, "That is not any of my business. I do not know what COMMONERS do after they get married!" He sighed in disgust and continued, "Just don't try to reproduce, we don't need more commoners in our royal system. Now come on, let's get this over with. I don't want any more of my valuable time wasted than is already being wasted."

Flash followed the prince over towards the main castle with mixed emotions. While he was ecstatic that he would finally be married to Twilight and get to do what he has dreamed of for years with her, he was nervous because he knew that nopony close to Twilight really cared for him. All he could do is hope that they would all respect Twilight's decision in choosing him and not somepony they would deem more worthy.