Under New Management

"Every Kingdom has its secrets. Enjoy yours, Princess Twilight." Princess Celestia took a quick curtsy. "Your Highness," Celestia said to Twilight as she excusing herself. She started to walk up the stairs, turning to Shining Armor. "I hope you enjoy your stay, Prince Armor..." she smiled, "... Luna and I certainly shall."

Twilight and her brother could only stand and stare as Celestia walked up the stairs, turned to go down the hallway, and vanished into her room for the evening.

"I'm sorry Twilight," Shining said.

"It's okay. I'm just surprised," Twilight said.

"Yeah. I honestly didn't think that Cadie would tell them about... us."

"No, I don't mean that, though that was surprising too. I mean them." She nodded to the top of the stairs. "I never suspected."

"Well, I don't imagine that it would be something that they would be terribly forthcoming about," he said as he sat in his chair.

"I guess that's true," Twilight said as she walked past him to her own seat. Suddenly she felt his hooves grab her flank, pulling her backward onto his lap. "Shining!" She could feel his hot breath in her ear as he whispered.

"I came all the way from the Crystal Empire to see you. And I was looking forward to finally getting to have you at last after all these years. I can't wait any longer." He pulled her hips back tighter against his crotch. Despite him having cum so recently, Twilight could feel the bulge inside his sheath rapidly expanding again. The soft tip emerged from his sheath and pressed against the opening of her vagina, not yet rigid enough to penetrate her. The warm wetness of her marehood in direct contact with his penis only served to spur him on. He shifted her seat on his lap, trying for a better angle. In his haste, his shaft sprang forward, glancing along the slit of her pussy and poking up between her legs.

"Shining- wait!" she looked down at his stiff erection. "Are we really going to do this right here in this chair?"

"Well actually," his magic swept the crystal table clean, "I had this table in mind."

"Oh, yeah, that would be really comfortable," she said sarcastically.

"It could be," he said with a grin. He levitated her off of his crotch and laid her on her back on the edge of the table. He reared up between her hanging legs and brought his dick to her marehood, rubbing it along her pussy to get it wet enough to-

"Shining," Twilight put her hoof to his chest. He looked down at her in dismay.

"Wha- Twi, don't tell me now that you don't want this!"

"I do want this. I want it more than anything!" she said, "But I want our first time to be special." Twilight looked at the table's haphazard mess scattered onto the floor with a frown. "Not like this." He stepped back away from her.

"What then? A romantic getaway, chocolates, champagne, and a waterfall?"

"No!" Twilight climbed down off the table and tussled his mane. "But can we at least go to my bedroom?"

"As you wish," he said with a bow, "Your Highness."

"Oh, don't you start doing that," Twilight scolded, trotting past him to the stairs. He followed closely behind her. "You're the last pony I need using titlesaaHHH!" Twilight stumbled halfway up the stairs, feeling her brother move up under her tail and licking her pussy. "Shine~" she could only barely gasp, feeling him licking her like his life depended on it. He grabbed her butt with his hooves, spreading her for him.

"Mmh, this is so much better, tasting you directly than licking you off of AJ's hoof," he moaned into her. The vibrations of his deep voice against her winking clit made it difficult for her to stand. Her hooves gave out and she pressed her cheek to the cold steps. It only served to prop her butt higher, giving him even better access. He made long strokes up and down with his tongue, flicking her clit with it each time he passed over it. And then plunging into her vagina, licking as deeply as he could. Her legs quivered.

"Shine, please," she begged, struggling to climb the stairs. "Let's just get to my bedroom. I need more than just your tongue!" He stopped licking and pulled away from her.

"As you wish," he said. Twilight got her hooves back under her when she felt him grip her butt harder. At once she felt his horn stuffed into her pussy, knocking her from her balance yet again. He pulled and pushed on her with his hooves in time with the movements of his head, thrusting his horn in and out of her. Twilight was at a loss for words. Her every effort now was to just keep herself from moaning loudly. She could feel the spiraled ridges of his horn moving along her velvety lining.

Twilight had only ever been on the giving side of the exchange in the past, with Applejack. But she had never received such treatment herself. It was her first time with a unicorn in this way. However, from her past experiences, she knew how Shining must have been feeling in that moment.

Shining was no stranger to the act himself. Applejack aside, it was a regular event in foreplay with his wife. He had known for a long time since they had first started dating how sensitive the horn could be when licked or sucked. Penetration in this way was the next logical step. Cadance had certainly been quite vocal in the past about her delight with the move. He had been keen to try it with Twilight as soon as she had told him about her intent with his visit. Like intercourse itself, it was pleasurable for each of them. And just knowing that it was his sister's hot, wet pussy caressing his horn made it intensely more stimulating for him.

"Shine- stop, I- I'm-" she gasped. But he didn't stop. If anything, he went faster, giving himself a bit of a headache, but he persevered. "Shine!" she cried out. He felt her muscles tremble around his horn. He pulled out at the last moment and pressed his mouth to her winking pussy, savoring the fresh rush of her nectar. All four of her legs gave out and she laid down on the stairs, panting. She turned and craned her neck to look back at her brother standing behind her. His painfully hard cock was bobbing in time with his racing heart. And his face was dripping with her marecum. "You're incorrigible."

"What can I say?" he said, grinning. "You bring it out of me."

"Carry me?"

His blue magic enveloped her, gently lifting her from the crystal stairs. Her memory hearkened back to a time when they would work together to raid the cookie jar in the top of the pantry. He would levitate her with his magic to get the jar with her hooves. It would have been easier, she later realized, for him to just levitate the jar down. But she wanted to help. And he was happy to let her be a part of a team. And even as she was lifted many times her own small size above the floor, she was never afraid of falling. She was confident that he would never drop her. And he never did. And now, just as then, she felt a warm sense of security in being wrapped in his magical grasp.

But rather than him carrying her in his magic as she had expected, he levitated her over himself and draped her across his back. It would have been much easier if he had just used his magic. She was no longer a small filly. She had a good idea of how much she must have weighed on him. But as he ascended the stairs, if her weight on him was of any burden, he didn't show it. Twilight buried her face into his blue mane, breathing in his masculine scent.

Smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. The smell of his sweat's natural aroma permeating his mane. She remembered, as a filly, riding his back like this. She remembered growing up with him being her first best friend. And while she couldn't precisely pinpoint the exact memory, she recalled when she began her slow descent into her infatuation with him.

At the top of the stairs, he turned and headed down the hall to her bedroom. The sisters were in the very next room over. Twilight's wandering mind was brought back to the present. She grappled with the conflict of engaging in this long-desired intimacy with both of the princesses just a wall away. Legality be damned, Celestia was still her long-time friend, mentor, and confidant. And really, just like a second maternal figure to her. As much as Twilight desperately wanted to consummate her love at last, a big part of her was leery of the current setting.

"Can we really..." Twilight asked in a hushed tone as she trailed off, "with them right next door?" It was as much a question for herself as her brother as he laid her onto her bed.

"Twilight," Shining comforted, "Celestia said, and I quote, 'every kingdom has it's secrets. Enjoy yours. She and Luna certainly shall'. She basically told you- told us that she condones it. Heck, she even encouraged us to." The rhythmic banging of the headboard against the wall in the guest bedroom was all the answer Shining needed. He glanced back at her. "Besides, I doubt they'll notice."

"Oh my gosh," Twilight gasped. "Are they really...?"

"What does it sound like to you?"

"Like... Luna's jumping on the bed?" Twilight said.

"Yeah, maybe jumping her sister's bones! Twi, I love you. But you can be really naive some times," he said. He was right, she realized as she sat on the bed and stared at the adjacent wall. Even after everything that had happened, she found it difficult to fathom what was going on in the next room. His hoof held her cheek and turned her back to him. "Hey, but today isn't about them. Today is about you, and me."

He climbed onto the bed with her, laying her down as he moved up between her legs. He held himself above her and leaned down to kiss her. As soon as his lips touched hers, the noise next door was drowned out by her heartbeat thundering in her ears. She could feel his penis brush against her pussy. She trembled under him at the contact. He adjusted his hips and brought himself back. She could feel his shaft sliding along her slit until the tip slipped downward. He stopped moving and kept only enough pressure to hold himself there. He broke the kiss to catch his breath.

"Twi, are you sure you want this-" Twilight silenced him with another quick kiss.

"Yes," she breathed. "Yes, I want this. I want this more than anything else in the world. I have wanted this- for so long! Please! Please don't make me wait another minute!" She pulled him in for another kiss. She felt the lips of her marehood parting as he aligned himself. The girth of his tip pressed harder at her entrance. It stretched a tiny bit at a time, agonizingly slowly. For all the times he'd seen her take Big Macintosh, he still insisted on being so gentle. It was love. And it was endearing, sweet torture for her lust. She wanted so badly to wrap her legs around his hips and pull him in. But not this first time. She felt her vagina opening to its widest point on his tip and then... it was in. They both moaned into their kiss. It was finally in her, if only just barely. But it was a symbolic threshold. She broke the kiss and nibbled on his ear.

"Please!" she whimpered in a trembling plea. The tender emotional significance of the moment for their relationship aside, she was a mare, and he was a stallion. And they were both desperately horny for each other. But he didn't push his hip forward. He wrapped his hooves around her waist and hugged her harder, pulling her to him tighter. Her hips moved closer to his, allowing more of him inside of her. She'd seen the way he'd fucked Applejack in the past. He would just slam her like a jackhammer without any concern. Twilight wanted so badly for him to just take her in the same way. But for his love, he was too much of a gentlecolt with her. She felt his medial ring reach her entrance. He paused, keeping it outside of her. She'd reached the limit of her patience. Twilight wrapped her legs around his hips and grabbed his shoulders with his hooves. The nibble on his ear became a bite as she growled, "Fuck me!"

She pulled him into her with her legs, feeling his balls slap against her butt. Her back arched off of the bed as her wings burst out to either side from under her. The curve of her body pressed her cervix down against his tip inside her vagina. Her head rolled back and her mouth was agape in a silent cry. The pleasure felt wonderful. And just knowing that it was him made it even better. She froze in the position for only a moment before she flopped back down onto the bed. Her hips immediately began to buck against him, only barely under her control. Her arrhythmic movements were hurried and frantic. He grabbed her hips with his hooves to steady her, pulling her with him as he slid backwards, until his legs slid off of the bed.

Still inside her, he planted his legs firmly on the floor at the edge of the bed. He wrapped his hooves around her legs and let her tail drape down. Her bed was the perfect height for the position. And he had all the leverage he needed to give her the ride she wanted. He pulled his hips back until just the tip of his dick was inside her. Before she could beg for it a final time, he thrusted forward, filling her again.

Twilight moaned as her hooves joined his, holding her legs. She looked up at him. Their eyes never left each others as he pulled back and thrusted again. And again. Each time, causing the headboard to hit the wall. The percussion joined the symphony of her moans and his strained grunts, accented by the wet slaps of their coupling. They could no longer hear the noise from the princesses. They no longer cared. They no longer cared if they were heard, themselves. Twilight looked into her brother's eyes, he looked into hers. She could feel him moving in and out of her. All that mattered now was them. They no longer cared if they were heard by all of Equestria.

In the next room, Celestia and Luna collapsed together as their orgasms overtook them.

"I love you, Luna."

"I love you, too."

Their ears perked up as they both looked to the wall. Even as they fell still in their afterglow, the rhythmic slamming of a headboard could still be heard. The noise was coming from the next bedroom.

"Are they...?" Luna asked, still recovering.

"It certainly sounds like it," Celestia said, toweling off her sweat and other fluids.

"They must realize that we can hear them," Luna said. Celestia focused her ears.

"Maybe not. You didn't seem to concerned with being quiet, yourself."

"We've earned this!" Luna said. " 'Tis been centuries since we've had an opportunity to spend any leisure time together." She rubbed her blue pussy lips. "Particularly in this capacity." Celestia stood beside the adjacent wall, placing her hoof against it.

"Twilight has earned this as well. She's worked hard to achieve this for herself. She ought to have it." She looked at Luna pouting on the bed. "Are you jealous?"

"Preposterous!" Luna scoffed. "You and I have far more experience. We are superior lovers in every regard!"

"Prove it." Celestia smirked and prodded at her competitive nature. Luna climbed from the bed and lifted the entire frame with her magic, turning it and setting the headboard directly against the adjoining wall. She wrapped Celestia in her magic and all but tossed her onto the bed. "Luna, be gentle with me! Be gentle with me!" Luna practically pounced on her, causing the bed to slam against the wall. She crawled up along her body and straddled her head. It was clear what she intended for Celestia to do. She happily obliged. She loved licking her little sister's pussy.

"OH YES!" Luna shouted with her face mere feet from the wall. Celestia nearly choked under her in surprise. "MY SISTER IS THE BEST AT LICKING PUSSY!" Luna rocked her hips, intentionally making the headboard hit the wall.

Next door, Shining and Twilight froze mid-thrust. Both looked over at the wall. They could clearly hear the banging resume. But now it was directly against the shared wall.

"The fuck!?" Shining stopped and pulled away from Twilight. She whimpered as he pulled out.

"Nononono! Just ignore them!" she cried.

"MY SISTER'S TONGUE FEELS AMAZING!" they could hear Luna shouting. Her voice was punctuated by what sounded like construction ponies hammering railroad ties into the wall with sledgehammers.

"How are we supposed to ignore that!?" he asked. "They're mocking us."

"No! She's not taking this away from us!" Twilight said. She got off the bed and moved it against the adjoining wall.

"Nopony is taking anything from anypony!" he said. She climbed in and stood on the mattress with her hooves against the headboard. She looked back at him and flagged her tail.

"Come on!" she beckoned him. When he hesitated, she pulled him with her magic, placing his face firmly under her tail.

"Uh, okay." In spite of the strangeness of the ordeal, he was never one to turn down such an offer. Especially from Twilight. He opened his mouth and planted it on her marehood, pushing his tongue inside. Twilight yelled at the wall as soon as she felt the contact.

"OH, YES! MY BROTHER'S TONGUE IS SO THICK AND STRONG! HE'S GOING TO MAKE ME CUM SO HARD!" she shouted, intentionally slamming the headboard against the wall with her hooves. Shining nearly jumped out of his fur.

"Are you insane!?" Shining asked.

"Insane like a fox! Keep going!" she commanded. On the other side of the wall, Luna went still. She looked down at Celestia between her legs. Each grinned at the other with the same 'challenge accepted' expression on their face.

"MY SISTER'S PUSSY TASTES WONDERFUL! I COULD EAT IT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!" Celestia shouted. Twilight stopped banging the headboard. Luna was one thing. But she was taken aback from hearing her mentor speak in such a way. She looked back at Shining, pointedly, prompting him to try to top her.

"Uh," he tried to think. "IF INCEST WERE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH, MY LAST MEAL WOULD BE MY SISTER'S PUSSY!"

"Okay, a little dark there, Bro," Twilight said.

"Twilight, this is ridiculous! Can we please just ignore them?" he asked. Twilight sighed and lifted him up to mount her. Shining needed no other help. He used his own magic to guide his stallionhood back to her pussy. With a grunt and a push, it was back inside her. Where it belonged. He started to hump away, happy that all the silliness was over-

"YES! MY BROTHER FEELS SO GOOD HAVING SEX WITH ME! WITH HIS PENIS THAT HE HAS! BECAUSE HE'S A STALLION!" she yelled. He cringed. Not to be outdone, Luna retorted a minute later.

"TIA! YOU ARE SO GOOD AT PLEASING ME WITH YOUR STRAP-ON THAT STAYS HARD FOR AS LONG AS WE NEED! OUR INTERCOURSE- -SHALL LAST- -FOREVER!"

"OH SHINING! I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO CUM INSIDE ME AND GET ME SO PREGNANT WITH YOUR SPERM!" Twilight yelled.

"ALL RIGHT! THAT'S ENOUGH!" Celestia yelled. Twilight heard the bed on the other side of the wall fall silent, followed by the hurried hoofsteps out into the hallway. A hoof banged loudly at her door.

"Um... who is it?" Twilight asked. Celestia opened the door and stormed inside, still wielding the enormous strap-on, swinging menacingly beneath her with each step.

"You! Off!" Celestia barked at Shining, still balls-deep in Twilight. He just looked at her like a deer in headlights. He snapped out of his shock and complied, pulling out of Twilight and stepping away. "Twilight," Celestia continued, "Fun is fun, but I have to draw the line at actually inbreeding!" Luna came into the room after her.

"Tia! What are you doing! Leave them be!" Luna admonished.

"I'm putting my hoof down! I can not stand idly by and allow Shining to impregnate his sister! It's... indecent!" Celestia said.

"Tia! This it Twilight's kingdom, not yours! You have no say in what she-" Luna paused. She could see it in Celestia's eyes. She knew her sister better than anypony. And she could tell what was really bothering her. "Tia, art thou envious!?"

"What! No!? What have I to be envious of!" Celestia defended. But she could not hide the red in her cheeks. It was a testament of truth, that Luna was correct.

"Do not lie, Tia! Especially not to me! You are envious that they might have a foal together where we could not!"

"No!" Celestia denied, turning away from her. "That is awful! Only an awful pony would- would want that!" Luna held her sister's cheek in her hoof, turning her back to face her. She wiped away Celestia's tear.

"You are not an awful pony to want that, Tia," Luna said. "You are a wonderful pony. You are my favorite pony. You are my sister. And I love you."

"I love you too, Luna. But it's okay. You're all I need," Celestia said.

"But it's not all that you want," Luna said, hugging her.

"It's- it's not possible!" Celestia sobbed. "We would need a stallion. One who would be able to keep our terrible secret-" Celestia and Luna looked over at Twilight and Shining on the bed. Celestia sniffled and wiped her eyes, clearing her throat. "Ah, Shining. It's good to see you. Might we borrow you for twenty to forty minutes?"

"Uh-" Shining tried to speak.

"What? No! He's my brother! Get your own!" Twilight said, wrapping her hooves around him.

"We'll give him right back."

"Uh-"

"Luna, Shining will impregnate you first. And then he'll impregnate me. And then Twilight can have him back."

"Fine! But he's not leaving this room! And neither am I," Twilight compromised.

"Do I get any say in this?" Shining asked.

"No!" the other three mares answered.

"Great-" Shining grumbled. Getting bossed around by one wife was bad enough. But now it was like having four wives. And it was not living up to the fantasy. "I always knew that you would get us both in trouble," Shining said to his penis. Luna lifted him with her magic and laid him on his back the bed.

"Tia, why don't you see if his tongue is as talented as his sister claims?" Luna said. Celestia unbuckled the strap-on. She climbed onto the bed and straddled his head while she leaned against the headboard. Shining had caught brief glimpses of Celestia's marehood beneath her voluminous tail in the past. But now he was at once brought face to face with it as she hovered over his snout. She lowered herself down, enveloping him in her musk. As soon as he began to lick, her wings sprang open and enclosed them together under them. His whole world was just him, and her. Until he felt movement on the bed behind her. Legs settled on either side of his hips as he felt his stallionhood lifted and aimed upwards. He moaned into Celestia's pussy as he felt his penis being enveloped inside a mare again.

"Ah, yes," Luna said, "Just like that." Even Celestia moaned as she felt her wings being massaged behind her. She moved her hips against Shining's face in rhythm with the mare riding him behind her. Celestia could feel his body going rigid under her as he grunted.

"It seems that his earlier intercourse has left him very near the brink," Luna said.

"Is that true?" Celestia asked. Shining clenched his eyes and nodded against her pussy.

"Mhmm!" he muffled into her. He could fell his balls getting warm, enveloped in magic.

"Just a little fertility spell," Luna said, "to make sure that you are extra potent." Shining could feel his need to cum become magnified, increasing along with the weight in his sack, feeling over-full. His hips bucked in desperate need for release. Celestia could feel his body thrash and convulse under her, driving her wild. She felt a warmth in her own tummy. "In fact," Luna said, "Fertility spells all around!" Celestia's pussy practically gushed with her increased arousal. Shining struggled for air amid her flood. He was at odds with which of his needs took priority; to breathe or cum. Shining could feel his balls getting tight as she bounced up and down on his cock. His shaft throbbed thicker and his tip flared wide, signalling his climax. His hips bucked one last time and her butt slammed down to meet him, pressing her cervix against his tip.

"MMHFF!" Shining's mouth grunted into Celestia's pussy as his cock pulsed and pumped.

"By the stars!" Celestia cried out, as he moaned against her pussy. His snout vibrated against her clitoris in just the right way to send her teetering over the edge. Her pussy winked and squirted marecum across his face, plastering his mane to his scalp. His vision began to fade as his cum rushed up his shaft in thick torrents, filling the other mare's pussy.

"He's cumming!" Luna said, watching his shaft throb. "He's cumming so much!" He could feel the pressure building up inside her pussy, and his cum rushed out of her from around his shaft. "There's too much to stay inside!" Luna said with glee. She grabbed Celestia's waist with her hooves. "Tia! Let the poor colt breathe!" she said, lifting her.

"Gah!" Shining gasped, sucking quick gulps of air and coughing out Celestia's nectar. He could see Celestia, and Luna standing beside her. But he still felt a weight on his lap. Their eyes followed Luna's gaze. Celestia moved aside and looked behind her. Shining saw Twilight there, straddling his lap with a content smile. "Twilie!?"

"Hmm, thank you Shiny," She rubbed the bulge in her tummy that his cock had made, full of his seed.

"Luna! Why you conniving-" Celestia scolded. "I thought it was you back there!"

"Of course not, Tia! We could not take this first time away from them!" Luna walked over and caressed Twilight's belly with her hoof. "But it matters not. The deed is done. And there shan't be anything you can do about it now!" Celestia climbed off of Shining. Twilight, with him still inside her, laid down on his chest. In spite of the audience, she was asleep in moments. Shining rolled over and eased her off of him. He laid her on her back. Luna propped Twilight's rump up beneath him with some pillows before he pulled out to keep any more of him from spilling out.

"Now then Captain, I believe you owe something to my sister and I?" Celestia said.

"Okay, but I don't know if-" Shining was cut off as he felt Luna's magic on his crotch again. His balls refilled themselves and his shaft grew back to full mast so quickly it almost hurt.

"This way," she said, leading him to their room.

The next morning, Shining staggered about in the kitchen attempting to make some coffee. He could barely feel his legs. The morning light streaked in through the stained-glass windows. The castle door opened and Celestia trotted inside with a dull smile still plastered on her face from the night prior.

"The sun is up," she told Shining. "How about you?" She wrapped her hoof around him, groping at his crotch.

"Princess, I don't think I physically can. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised," he whimpered. Luna slowly walked downstairs. Her mane and tail were a fright, hanging limp upon her. Her sullen eyes were baggy, and half-lidded.

"Coffee," she groaned. He offered her his cup but she shuffled past him and ate several scoops of coffee grounds from the can, chasing it with boiling water straight from the kettle. Her eyes brightened up and her hair returned to its normal, wave state. "Ah."

"Are you okay?" Shining asked.

"Long night," she said. "A lot of the neighbors around here were having nightmares last night."

"Shiny?" Twilight said from the top of the stairs.

"Morning, Twilie!" Shining said, meeting her at the bottom of the stairs.

"You weren't in the bed when I woke up," she said.

"It's okay. I'm right here." He hugged her. Celestia could see him getting aroused.

"Oh sure, he gets hard for her!" she huffed. Luna nuzzled against her sister.

"Well you still give me the stiffest wings," she said. It seemed to satisfy Celestia's envy. A knock came from the front door.

"I'll see who it is," Shining said. He opened the door just enough to look through. Outside was a cadre royal guards. "Good morning," he greeted them. "Is there something wrong?"

"Sir, we've received several noise complaints from citizens regarding this... residence."

"Oh, um, my apologies," Shining said. "We'll be sure to keep it down." Before Shining could close the door, the guard wedged the butt of his spear into the doorway.

"Who else is here?" Shining looked back into the room. Celestia and Luna were both nervously shaking their heads at him.

"Oh, just me visiting my sister, Princess Twilight," he said. The guard nodded to the others.

"Book him!" Shining saw arcane cuffs appear on his hooves and his horn.

"Hey!"

"Sir, we've received very specific complaints about this residence. Vulgar shouting and... a variety of lewd noises." Shining turned a whiter shade of pale. Twilight ran to the door. Celestia stopped her, and held her back. "Incest is not wincest!" the guard said. "Get his sister," he said to the group. The other guards pushed open the doors.

Princess Celestia and Princess Luna stood there, side by side behind Shining Armor. They towered over the rest of the ponies with their wings spread wide and their horns glowing as brightly as their eyes. Their manes billowed in an unseen tempest of their power.

"HALT!" Princess Luna shouted at the mob with the full force of her Canterlot Voice. Shining could now hear nothing but the high pitched ringing of tinnitus from her yelling just inches behind his head.

"Your Highness!" The guard bowed quickly. "P-please s-stand aside. We are here to arrest Twilight Sparkle on suspicion of-"

"There has been no crime commited!" Luna bellowed. Celestia's horn flashed. Behind Celestia, Twilight saw her legal scroll appeared at her hooves. She held it with her magic and stepped forward to join the others. Celestia and Luna parted just enough for her to step between them.

"There she is! Arrest her-"

"YOU ARE ADDRESSING THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY OF THE LAND!" Celestia roared with her own Canterlot Voice. The ground shook, and Shining could feel the heat of her voice singe the fur on the tips of his ears. "AND YOU WILL ADDRESS WITH THE RESPECT OF SUCH!"

"Your Highness, I wasn't referring to you-"

"Not her, you imbecile!" Luna said. "Princess Twilight Sparkle is the sovereign ruler of Ponyville!"

"Your Majesties," the guard bowed again as he spoke, "No pony, not even a princess is above the law." Luna silently patted Twilight's back with her wing, urging her forward. "Under regulation 1nc35t, it is illegal to engage in consanguineous-"

"Regulation 1nc35t has been repealed!" Twilight said as she stepped forward. She unrolled the scroll and presented it to him. He read the document, noting the official seals of both the princess and the mayor. "In the future, I would advise you research the validity of the laws you seek to uphold, before you put innocent ponies in cuffs." She moved out beside Shining Armor, grit her teeth and growled. "Now Release. My. Brother." The other unicorn guard extinguished the binding enchantment of Shining and the cuffs vanished. Twilight put her hoof around him and pulled him back inside, behind the royal sisters.

"And don't worry about us, Lieutenant," Celestia said calmly as she narrowed her eyes at him, "We'll make sure that we keep the volume turned down while we watch pornographic films. Because that's what it was. A fictional film, being played too loudly, that the neighboring citizens heard. And that's what will be reported. Because if I find out that any slanderous lies are said about Princess Twilight..."

Princess Celestia leaned in close to the lieutenant. So close that her mouth was practically in his ear. And she whispered so faintly that the other behind him could not hear it. Her stoic face was expressionless. But as she whispered, he winced and clenched his eyes. His throat tightened and his lips trembled as he stifled his whimper. She glared at the others behind him as she continued to whisper. Tears ran freely down his cheek. By the time she finished, he was openly sobbing and there was a puddle of urine under him. Celestia stood back up, with perfect poise.

"But, it won't come to that, will it?" she asked with sharply cheerful inflection. He shook his head quickly and wiped his eyes and nose. "Splendid!" she said. She looked at the others and her lips peeled back into an uncomfortably wide smile. "You all have a n̹̲͎i̷̳̘̘̗̫̜c̡̬̘͕e̥̳̪ ̧̠̫̯̜̠̘͚d͈̣a̮y̧ now." She stepped back inside and closed the door.

-

Inside, Twilight was huddled with her brother on the living room couch.

"Now everypony knows," Twilight cried.

"Oh, I wouldn't worry about it," Celestia said. "I assure you, your relationship will stay a secret."

"But now everypony will know that incest is legal!" Twilight said. "What will they think of me!" Celestia smiled.

"You let me worry about that," she said. "Luna? We should go. We have work to do."

When there was a knock at the door the next day, Twilight was afraid to answer it, expecting an angry mob of disgusted citizens. She opened the door.

"Hey Twi," Applejack greeted. Big Mac stood there beside her. "We've got great news for you!"

"Oh?" Twilight asked. She'd meant to tell her friend about her own great news.

"Yeah! Princess Celestia just made a big decree yesterday. She repealed a whole bunch of old laws! Now we can sell cider on Sundays, and gamble outside of Las Pegasus! And...!" she leaned in close and whispered, "she repealed the law against incest!"

"Oh!?"

"Isn't that great!?" AJ asked.

"Yeah. I mean, yeah!" Twilight realized that Celestia had made a public decree to overshadow Twilight's repeal. Now it would just look like Twilight was following her unquestionable example. "It's just, the thing is, I already did."

"You mean you already knew?" AJ asked.

"No I mean, Celestia gave me Ponyville to rule on my own. And that was one of the first laws I changed. I had meant to tell you sooner..."

"Twilie? Who's at the door?" Shining Armor said from inside the castle. Twilight smiled.

"...But I've been a little preoccupied," Twilight said, blushing.

"Why you- scamp!" AJ teased her, bumping her shoulder with her hoof. "Actually, that's kind of why I was visiting, too."

"Why?" Twilight asked.

"Well you see," Applejack blushed. "Mac 'n I wanted to get to celebrating the new law as soon as possible."

"Eeyup."

"But Granny's hearing is still pretty good around the house, and Applebloom has been getting mighty nosy. So we were wondering if you might have a spare room?"

"Oh? Oh!" Twilight blushed harder. "Uh, sure. Come inside."

"I intend to," Mac said.

"Shining," Twilight said, closing the door behind them, "could you show AJ and Mac to the guest room?"

"Uh, sure," Shining said. "Hey guys. Long time no see. It's uh, this way." He directed them. Twilight was about to head upstairs to her own room when there was another knock at the door. She turned back and opened it.

"Yes?" Aloe and Lotus stood outside.

"Princess Twilight!" Aloe greeted. "We just wanted to tell you that we think the new law for Ponyville is simply luxurious!"

"O...kay."

"But our parents would not understand," Lotus said. "Do you have a guest room where we could... celebrate?"

"It's... um, occupied?" Twilight said.

"Oh, of course!" Aloe said.

"We would need to make a reservation!" Lotus said. Twilight looked back and forth between them.

Behind them, she could see Fluttershy approaching, dragging Zephyr along by his ear.

"Even you can do this!" she said assertively. "It will be good for your confidence."

Behind them, Pinkie Pie was bouncing along with Marble and Maud.

"This is going to be the Best Sleepover EVER!"

Behind them she could see the Flim Flam brothers and more.

Twilight sighed.

"I'll get my appointment book."