Royal Pains

“Hi ya Twi.” A cyan skin toned girl, with rainbow coloured hair said, wearing a blue T-shirt with a rainbow coloured lightning bolt printed on it.

“Hi Rainbow Dash.” Twilight replied embarrassed.

“Where are we going tonight.” Rainbow Dash replied.

“Don't worry Twilight, I will help you with this one. After all I am the princess of love, and I think you and Rainbow, would make quite the cute couple. You are both highly compatible with each other.” Cadence replied for Twilight, relaxing from the sudden revelation. “Now you three have to get ready for your dates. I'll entertain the boys and girl, why you three freshen up.” Cadence concluded, excited about helping her sister in law, and her aunts find partners.

Soon after she ushered Twilight, Celestia, and Luna off. She magicked a drawing board to her, and requested her husband to get some refreshments for the guests.

After Twilight, Celestia, and Luna finished in the shower they donned there best dresses. However Twilight did not have a dress, nor did she have the time to get one, because of this Celestia had generously given Twilight one of her older, yet still pretty dresses to wear for the night.

At first it was to long on her, but with a bit of magic, she tailored the dress to her size, though it matched her size now, she still thought it was far to outdated. So Twilight created a spell on the fly, and redesigned her dress into a modern cocktail dress.

The dress was a sleeveless black dress, cut just above the knees, fitting her figure tightly, with a thin sash starting from her upper arm, just below her shoulder, revealing the top side of her right breast, spreading to the right side of her chest, then winding back to the left side of her chest, covering her cleavage in the process, creating a Z like shape exposing her stomach, but connecting to the base of the dress, via the back of the dress.

The three girls, made there way from the bath room, heading to the foyer, where the boys were now waiting.

While the girls took there time to get ready; RD was pacing in the foyer filled with nerves, Discord had been thinking of how many ways he could make this date fun, and Sombra was trying to figure out what he would say to Luna.

Sombra had been locked in disbelief, that someone even had a crush on him in the first place. He was struggling against his mixed emotions about this whole ordeal.

He was warring against regret for treating Luna and Celestia the way he did, the uncertainty about whether this was a ploy for revenge, and the confusion about Cadence; why was she helping him in the first place, no one had showed him such kindness before. All the more surprising was the nature of their relationship, he was her sworn enemy, yet she still helped, showing kindness towards him.

1 Day earlier, somewhere in the Crystal Empire…

Twilight had written Sombra a letter pretending to be Luna, requesting him to meet her for a date. In the letter it described how Luna had wanted to date him for many years, pre-dating all the way back to her high school years.

When Sombra read it, he found it absurd. After all, the reason he enslaved the Crystal Empire was because he wanted to make them pay for the way they treated him.

By taking over Equestria, he would finally be recognised, which was the only thing he wanted, just to be noticed by somebody, to have a friend.

However they just ignored him, or ran in fear. so he decided to give them what they wanted, fear. He became the most fearful dark wizard of all time. He knew he would go down in history, although it was for the wrong reasons, he didn’t care. He would finally be recognised.

It had become his driving force all these years, but this letter brought back a glimpse of his old personality; charming, polite, kind, and gentle, he felt a warm feeling buried in the deepest of places of his heart, ignite once again.

Sombra soon realised that this feeling was the feeling of love. He remembered back to when he would see Luna walk passed him, with a kind smile upon her face. He would feel butterflies fly around in his chest, every time she was near. Though he was always to shy to even say two words to her, he would always shy away, or hide behind a book.

Sombra decided after realising the way he felt, that he would not shy away again, and instead agree to meet up with Luna.

Present Time…

As Twilight and the two sisters made it down the stares leading to the foyer, Rainbow Dash Gasped in surprise, as she noticed how sexy Twilight looked in her dress. She had to blink twice to make sure she was not dreaming, or hallucinating.

“Wow Twi, you look amazing. Here I am wearing a standered T-shirt.” Rainbow Dash stated, suddenly self conscious of what she was wearing.

Twilight blushed

“You look pretty too.” Twilight replied coyly.

“Awwww, how cute you two are.” Cadence Commented, Earning a blush from both Twilight and RD.

Discord looked at Celestias' choice of dress, and felt instantly bored.

Celestia was wearing a modest beige full length dress, with little flowers skirting the base of the dress.

“Well no surprise there…” Discord rolled his eyes. “let's make thing's more interesting.” Discord stated as he clicked his fingers.

As he did Celestias' clothing suddenly changed to the same skimpy outfit, she wore in her profile picture on the website.

“much better.” Discord chuckled.

“Discord!” Celestia said, as a fresh wave of embarrassment presented itself, as Celestia changed her clothing back to the way it was.

“I love it when you get embarrassed.” Discord stated, playfully.

Luna and Sombra were awkwardly silent, they did not know what to say to each other. This was because Luna and Sombra had never been on a date before, this was a first for them both.

Cadence chuckled lightly at her aunts first reaction to dating. She was reminded of the time she first met Shining. Cadence remembered it, like it was yesterday.

Flash Back…

She remembered never missing any of Shining Armour's football games, hiding behind the audience stand, in the darkness, silently cheering him on. It was her eldest aunt, who encouraged her to talk to her prince in Shinning Armour.

At first it was awkward, she would stumble over herself, feeling foolish at times, but she knew Shining thought it was cute. After she became more comfortable around him, Shinning asked her out on a date, where she wore a pretty dress, that Celestia had kept aside for her.

Cadences Dress was a lovely rose pink colour, with a v shaped neck line that was cut just after the knees, with little frills edging the base of the dress. She also wore a love heart shaped turquoise necklace, her light purple, mauve, and white, hair sittting naturally, flowing gently down her side, slightly swooping across her brow.

She remembered Shinnings' reaction as she opened the door. He had been completely awe struck by her beauty unable to word the simplest of sentences. Cadence blushed as she took his outstretched hand. He led her to his car, where they drove to the movie theatre.

She remembered the date they went on quite fondly; they had seen love at first sight, had a nice meal at a 5 star restaurant, completely paid for by Celestia. Then they walked hand in hand on the beach, before settling down on the beach, watching the stars and the moon pass them by, as the sound of gentle waves breaking along the shore line lightly sounded in the backround.

Cadence snuggled into Shinning Armours' chest,  listening to the beat of his heart, completely content.

The couple had stayed there locked in a comfortable embrace with each other, watching the moon set behind the waters horizon, where she received her first kiss, before going back home to relive the night in her dreams.

Present time…

After Cadence returned from her walk down memory lane, she told the couples where their dates would be held.

Cadence was good at what she did, she adapted the scene for each individual couple, so that they would get the most out of their dates.

Twilight and RD, were going to have a picnic on the viewpoint of a mountain, over looking Equestrias' numerous cities.

Cadence set this date up for Twilight, because she knew that she'd enjoy being bathed in starlight overlooking a stunning view of Equestria, with nothing around them, just two people having a nice and quiet picnic. Cadence also knew that something special would be happening tonight.

Luna and Sombra, were going to have dinner together before playing lazer tag, then going to see a movie afterwards.

Cadence organised this because she knew that both Sombra and Luna were gamers, and loved watching movies.

Celestia and Discord, were going for a moonlit walk along the beach, where they'd eat fish and chips.

Cadence organised this date for two reasons; the first was to keep discord out of trouble, and secondly Celestia was much lower maintenance then everyone expected her to be, she enjoyed the simple things, like Twilight did.

Cadence smiled, as she watched the three couples leave with there respectable partners. After they left, Shinning and Cadence started to talk about how they met, reminiscing about the past, and what they should do in the future.