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Nova POV
"Do you Princess Luna, Do you take Nova's hand in marrige? No matter the circumstance?
Celestia spoke suprisingly calm for the hell she had just witnessed.
" We do"
"And do you Nova, take Luna's hand in marrige? No matter the circumstance?"
"Ive seen some serious shit already...so...Yes!"
"With that over with...I pronounce you...wife....and well...wife... You may kiss the bride.... s"
Luna grabbed me by the shirt and pulled me into one hell of a kiss, we stood there in each others bloody and messy embrace for almost a whole minute before separating.
The few ponies there clapped and cheered...most of them were probably just happy that life continues on.
"Oh...Nova, stay there for a sec, I have something else that I need to tell you"
"What's that?" Celestia leaned in and whispered in my ear"
"Once canterlot is rebuilt, You're going to have a coronation...since you just married a princess."
"Cool, although If I were you I wouldn't expect g something regal from me.... Not one for froo froo shit."
"I know...you'll see when it happens"
2 months later
Cantelot had been rebuilt in record time...probably because magic, and the fact that few buildings had actually been destroyed, just built over. I had moved in with Luna, as soon as the city was suitable to live in.
Luna's chambers were huge, and relatively sparse, they were decorated heavily with paint and engraved baseboards and such, but things like furniture and belongings were scarce, until that is I moved in...During the 2 month rebuilding I had gone out and found all of my crap, both the stuff I collected up from within equestria, as well as my possesions that the monolith dragged in and neatly boxed up in some kind of pocket universe...thing, which was now proudly sitting in a box under the bed, other than tossing in a couple small things, I hadn't opened it, mostly because I didn't want to get emotional about it...because bad things tend to happen...aka, shit bursts into flames. On the walls hung a few new banners luna had commissioned and several of the better looking weapons we owned. Tonight was saturday night...and I was reading over Twilight's little report of the battle from her perspective, apparently If Chrysalis had been at her normal peak in power, I would have literally vaporized her...but with the extra boost from the entire hive, It wouldn't have mattered if I had nuked her or crashed the moon into her. As I thought about the article Luna spoke to me.
"Nova, tis' probably the time for you to prepare for the coronation"
"Alright Lulu, lemme just find my clothes." Celestia had gone full on "warrior princess" with the outfit, which meant that it was pretty minimal, basically some traditional lightweight leather armor consisting of an arm guard, shin guards, and some back protection, And the actual clothing was basically an ornamented loincloth and top. I put it all on and strapped my sword onto my back and luna braided my hair and tied it off with a piece of copper wire. "How is it...anything put on wrong?"
"We see nothing wrong, we shall have to complement our sister on the outfit... For once she went with our advice on something."
"Ill see you out there."
In the throne room I could hear lots of people, I waited about 2 minutes before celestia began to speak, I could barely hear the speech...thank goodness it was short... Then one of the guards near the door waved me in. I walked up to the throne and knelt, the room was almost dead quiet, save a few odd noises or shuffling around."
Celestia quietly picked up a small crown from a weird cushion thing and put it on my head, I heard clapping and stood up and about faced, more clapping happened and everyone started filing out... After the last few left and the doors closed I was tackled by Luna.
"OOF"
"We are sorry... We did not mean to do that...we became over excited:
"No...it's fine, just startled me is all." I picked up the crown from the floor and gave it a quick look, it was much more angular than the other princesses' chosen headwear, it was made of a few different materials, a dark and quite heavy metal scored with tiny little lines and patches, a much lighter and more whitish metal, and something resembling orange tempered steel, the gemstone laid into it was a very vibrant orange which seemed to give off a bit of light and looked as if it was alive...really strange it was ground into a very pointy diamond set into crest of the item was beveled much like a small blade which flowed seamlessly into the gem, the overall size was about equivalent to luna's crown.
"Do you like it?"
"It looks fucking awesome!"
"The gem is a draconic sapphire from down south, when charged with magic it gives off light and heat... And it can also act like a magic collector and battery. The orange metal is tempered damarescus steel, the white is a titanium compound, and the dark color is meteorite of lunar origin, composed of selinite rich iron which gives the dark color.
"Duuude, thats fucking awesome...thanks for making this"
"You're the one who killed chrysalis, and finally won the heart of my sister, I think you've probably earned it." I placed the crown on after that and left with everyone else. Celestia, Luna, Twilight and I made our way into a conference room adjacent to the throne room and sat down at a large hardwood table, where celestia placed a large folder and began to talk
"Ive brought you here to discuss the matter of a new princess, As of now Nova is one level below Luna In terms of political influnce... Don't abuse it..., next is the matter of succession. When I step down in a few millenia, Luna will take my place as the primary ruler, and will most likely be re crowned as queen because she is married, Nova will be ushered in to take the original place of luna and so on, Twilight has already discussed her plans with me for when I step down so we need not waste time on that, Nova at the moment posesses no authority over any military units other than any guards assigned to her, and will have only an advosory role in politics until she is trained in the inner workings of our government. Any questions before I move on?....no?...moving on. This room is now magically sealed and mute to the outside world, anything said within these walls is not to leave this room unless otherwise instructed.
As all of us already know Nova was originally the product of a confidential experiment, her actual origins were never fully released to the public, and she was therefore given a forged backstory to keep the public out of the loop, we wrote her existence off to a voluntary experiment conducted on a willing subject by the name of Polaris, because the research division her file was assigned to after custody was removed from twilight was part of a government installation known as Dark Star, Nova must be informed and sworn to secrecy on the matter...and because of her new rank she has full authority over the installation and it's subsidaries. the only ones who may challenge this are myself and Luna.
On other matters we have a massive influx of recently converted citizens coming back into canterlot and we need to decide on how to handle this matter...the public currently has a very bad view of changelings, bad memories of the wedding of cadence resurfacing, and the ever present resistance to new species making themselves known, as with the immigration of zebras several years ago as well as non pony species such as griffons there is resistance. And just as with the griffon influx hesitency because of the supposed threat of being eaten alive, the public is afraid that the changelings will kidnap and replace them...so we must find a solution to this within the next year...possibly sooner, depending on what happens."
"Ohhhhhhkay?....that's alot to take in....is there anything else I should know?" celestia looked me in the eye and gave me a death stare that bored through me like a hot drill through butter. Then she spoke in a whisper that sounded as if it was made of razor blades.
"If you break her heart, I break you..."
"Ok.........ok.....just chill....." ahe abruptly changed her demeanor and gave me a weirdly satisfied smile and went back to her usual collected demeanor.
"Okay then! With that done, let's stop here for today and get something to eat shall we!"
That night, 10:00 pm. Luna Pov
I entered the dream realm as I did every night and began scanning for anything out of the ordinary...suprisingly... Nothing... Except for the usual one of distress, My New wife Nova...her dreams were extremely unusual, either becoming lucid dreams or becoming something only a demon of tartarus would dream of.
I stood before the heavy almost vault like door that separated me from the chaos beyond, I pulled thd large red "open" lever mounted on the surface, the door screeches as deadbolts retract and some kind of large mechanism pulls the heavy door inward slightly and off to one side, I stepped in and waited for the door to close behind me and prepared for what lies beyond, I opened the inner door and found myself staring out across a war torn battlefield...one entity standing at the center, It was Nova, in her nightmareish form...staring at something in the distance, I walked over to her to attempt to comfort her, avoiding the bodies and dropped weapons, I saw what she was staring at, in the distance, was what appeared to be the canterlot mountain...but rather than the namesake city, I saw a massive softly orange glowing crater, I could'nt place the meaning of it all but I could remove her from this nightmare, I sent a pulse of magic into her and watched the landscape fade away to the science fiction esque interior of her inner psyche, looking out across the strange object in the distance. After several seconds Nova returned to her usual form and stared at me with an expression of relief.
"Thanks for that...." she sounded shaken...moreso even then after her bout with the late chrysalis.
"Tis our duty, but we must ask...what did it represent?"
" some kind of surrealistic representation of what I thought could have happened...."
"How so"
"You saw my attempt at killing chrysalis by giant explosion...so imagine that but multiply the effects ten fold and detonate it in the middle of canterlot...that was my plan as a last resort....if nothing else worked I would grab on to chrysalis and cause a similar explosion while also detonating the little reactor that sits in my torso... It would probably have vaporized canterlot, a good portion of the mountain and killed everything even remotely callable life in the area....in all honesty It could have been worse than that even, If I concentrated all of my magic into a tiny point It would have caused a massive tear in spacetime very similar to a black hole...but it would immediately suck in the city and then implode...then it would rebound and literally wipe the entire planet of life....as I am now i could never do that...but as the form Im going to call Pulsar, the power I had at my disposal would have made an extinction event easy...that tartaric sword makes it easy to change into that form...but I fear that I may accidentally doom us all."
"Fear not...we too had the same worries... After our return we wondered about and feared the possibility that we could accidentally kill the world by crashing the moon into it, celestia may have had a similar fear of her own at some point...but nothing has come of it as of yet...and it seems that thou art better at controlling thy anger, as nightmare moon we went insane with a lust for power, but as pulsar you remained sane....very, very displeased, but sane nonetheless, so we congratulate thy sanity."
"Thanks...."
Author's Note
Since I'm american I have no clue how a coronation works.... so I just add libbed and moved on.
This is probably gonna have a few things changed eventually.
Im going to try and make some art for this story so be on the look out for that.
As for the plot this story is pretty much done I'll leave it as incomplete because I may change some things and do some much needed editing.
BTW selinite is a made up material...because moon ore.... Came up with it by taking the word selena (latin for moon and the original comcept name for Princess luna) and chopping off the and and replacing it with"ite"
I've rewritten the ending for this thing about a million times (around 7) because I couldn't find a good way to tie up this plotline and get another going for a sequel...or at least end this one, for now it will be left as is but it will almost certainly change depending on what I want to do with the sequel.... And Ill post the link to it here as well.
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