A short visit

by Dreamshadow

Rating: everyone
Tags: Princess Luna, Spike, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1025

Spike gets a letter from a different princess than usual.

Princess Luna plans to visit her sisters student in Ponyville, but ends up talking to her number one assistant instead.

Published 2012-06-10 19:34:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-06-10 19:34:02 UTC

Chapter 1

Another one of the random things I found while going through old google docs. I wrote this WAYY long ago during season one before Nightmare night, so I'm not sure how well my Luna here flows with her currant ponysona. I hope someponies find it enjoyable.

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Spike felt a familiar pressure building in his throat. Surely enough the warm bubble soon burped itself out in the form of a letter. It was not on the usual white parchment of the princess Celestia; rather it was on dark blue vellum, with a moon shaped seal. This was extremely odd, usually only Celestia sent letters through him. It was addressed to Twilight though.

Spike found himself getting curious, he was a curious Dragon, but he knew not to open other ponies mail... BUT this was Luna they were talking about, it could be important, or dangerous. Perhaps it was his duty to check, just to make sure it was ok. Twilight was out in the Everfree forest with Zecora tonight, and likely wouldn’t be back until late.

Spike blew some hot breath onto the edge of the wax seal. Slipping a claw under the wax, he slipped the scroll open. The white words on the scroll read:

“Twilight, I wanted to say many things to you. I wanted to apologize, I wanted to thank you, and I wanted to let you know how well I was doing. You ponies likely haven’t heard much about me, and I was hoping that you might want to meet with me tonight. I will be waiting east of town if you want to speak.”

Spike thought about this. He supposed he should pass this on as soon as he saw Twilight again. He looked around the clean library.

Ten minutes later curiosity got the better of him. How did he know it was safe, he should go check, besides which, how often did you get to meet a princess? Okay so maybe a lot when you hung out with Twilight, but it was still neat.

Spike reached the area east of town and looked around. He wondered how he would look for the princess, he had never seen her before.

“Hello” he heard a gentle sounding voice say behind him. He turned around to see a Alicorn with a coat of such dark blue that it was almost black. Ponies usually didn’t have such dark colours of coat. Her Cutie mark was a crescent moon. She was beautiful. “um, ...hello Luna” he said, blushing. She blushed back, looking sad “Twilight didn’t come did she” she said, the downcast look on her face made Spike feel like his heart was breaking. “NO NO she really wanted to come see you” he assured Luna, “She told me to tell you to come back tomorrow night to meet her.”

Luna smiled, it was like the moon splitting the night sky. “Oh okay, nice to meet you by the way Spike.” Spike blushed “Really?” he asked. Spike had never been acknowledged this way by Rarity! Twilight may be mad at him for this, but it would all be worth it. Luna continued “I suppose I should thank you as well.” Spike blushed deeper “oh no no I haven’t done anything for you, I’m just a messenger” he said blushing deeply. “Oh but its wonderful to have somebody to talk to tonight, and you helped Twilight free me... I couldn’t possibly not thank you. Come, lets go flying.” Spike felt his heart was near exploding, Luna was getting down on her knees to allow him on her back.

Spike slowly moved himself onto Luna’s shoulders, this was DEFINITELY not something you usually got to do. The ground rushed out from beneath him as Luna flew them through cloud cover at extreme speed. They alighted upon a cloud from which the full moon was visible. Once there Luna simply sat and watched the moon and stars. He watched them with her for a while, as that seemed to be what she wanted to do, but he found his eyes inevitably drawn to her. What he saw there was loneliness and melancholy.

He decided he needed to talk to her. “The moon is very nice tonight” he decided to say. She smiled “thank you” she said “I tried to make the atmosphere clear tonight, so that everypony could see it clearly” she sighed “only a few are of course.” Spike started “you can tell when somepony is admiring the moon?” Luna smiled “of course I can, I can’t tell who, but whenever someone appreciates my work, my essence, I can feel it, it gives me strength, life.”

Spike thought he understood “so how have you and your sister been getting along?” Luna sighed again “she’s watching me, I understand the need, but I wish she could trust me.” Spike thought about what he knew about Celestia, “maybe she does, maybe she is watching because she is worried about you.” Luna looked thoughtful, then smiled, “Thank you Spike, I never thought of it that way before.”

Spike found them in silence for a while. He found the night really was pretty. after some time he found himself looking at Luna again, she looked back, bemused. “So how is Twilight doing?” the smaller princess asked. “Well she’s doing well...” Spike found himself yawning, not used to being up this late, he tried to stop himself, but really was quite tired, “...but she’s always busy with everypony’s problems...” Spike found himself wandering off to sleep even more than usual.

Luna’s horn stopped glowing as she saw the little dragon slip off to sleep. “don’t...wanna sleep, beautiful” she heard him mutter. She chuckled to herself, the little guy really had improved her night. she picked him up and flew down to the library. She saw Twilight approaching the library, but she looked very tired tonight as well. Luna made a decision, she had enough patience to wait until tomorrow night. She used her magic to reseal her letter, then transported it, and Spike into the house. Luna flew off into her night sky, not so lonely any more.