The Moon Need Friends Too

Chapter 15 Rage

Once they had left, Shining Armor, Cadence and Celestia walked down the steps heading towards the throne room while the pegasus guards who had flown the carriage took their luggage to their room. Since it would take a while to walk to the throne, Cadence decide to speak to her aunt.

"Celestia, except from the Guards and our new guests, has anything else happened while Shining and I were away?"

"Nothing really, except Twilight sending me her friendship reports. Even though I told her that following a strict schedule wasn’t necessary, they always arrive right on time. In fact, I may have used their evening arrivals to end court a little earlier than usual more than once,” Celestia said, chuckling a bit.

Cadence giggled at the thought. It was so like Twilight to always be on time, even when it wasn’t needed. Shining merely shook his head and continued walking.

"Sis needs to chill sometimes, we don't want another breakdown from her."

They all remembered quite clearly, whether through actual memory or retelling, just what levels of insanity Twilight could achieve when she does eventually snap. Luckily, the other Mane 6 and Spike, along with Celestia are able to work together to calm Twilight’s worries of punctuality all the time.

After the chat about Twilight ended, they then went on about day to day life. Things such as new laws agreed on with the Griffon and Dragons, as well as new laws being passed in Equestria. Plus, once again refusing Blue Blood's request/command of Ponyville to be destroyed due to the embarrassment he suffered at the hands of some of the residents; making a Prince like him look like a fool.

Even though he was a nephew/cousin to Luna, Celestia and Cadence; he was the bane of Equestria to them and Shining Armor, who had nearly attacked him once, only to be stopped by Cadence. But he was still family, so they all just had to bare with his snotty behaviour.

Soon they came up to the doors of the throne room. Celestia gave Shining a nod and he used his magic to open the doors. Celestia gave him a ‘thank you’ as she walked into the throne room, followed by Celestia and Shining.

As they walked in they all saw the group of Guards who quickly went into a kneeling position upon seeing their ruler, which annoyed her since most of the Guards saw her as more important than her sister. Only Luna’s Guards seem to respect her, which was much smaller in numbers than her sister’s Guards.

This had to lead to problems for Luna at the start, since she saw it as another way of the Ponies being scared of her.
"Rise," Celestia said in aggressive tone.

Without thinking about it, all of the Guards rose to attention, not wanting to upset their Princess even more. Most of the Guards present belonged to her. Out of the twenty-five in the room, twenty of them were hers, while only five were dedicated to Luna. This had shocked her, but she then remember that it was one of Luna’s own Guards that had lashed out.

"Where is the Guard that had been rude to Miss Rainbow Dash, Miss Fluttershy and out guests?" Celestia asked loudly, looking over the group of guards.

No one had moved or spoken due to fear and not being entirely sure of whom their Princess had meant. The guards’ silence only caused Celestia’s rage to increase, this had seriously hoofed her off big time. She was going to speak again when she felt Shining Armor’s hoof touching her leg.

"May I, Princess?" Shining Armor asked her.

"Yes, go on, Shining Armor." Celestia replied calmly, trying to keep her anger in check.

Shining nodded his head as he looked at his soldiers with disgust. He would give them all a hard time after this talk had been dealt with.
"You have the count of 10 for the Guard who had cause this problem to step forward, or all of you will be doing a 1000 mile run, with no wings or magical help at all," Shining Armor yelled to them all.

Since it was not a serious crime, Celestia could only give a small punishment. Shining could give harsher punishments when it was the smaller problems that the guards caused.

There was a shuffle as a group of Night Guards pushed one of their own in front of Shining Armor and the Princess. Guessing due to their pushing, this was the Guard that had cause the problem.

"Tell me your name, soldier," Shining Armor ordered of the guard in a strong tone.

The look on the Night Guard’s face was one of pure fear, seeing the looks Celestia and Cadence were giving him.

"My name is Night Blade, Sir." Night Blade said in a scared tone, his once confident attitude gone.

"Why did you act the way you did to the Princess’ guests and two members of the Elements of Harmony?" Shining Amour asked him in a cold tone.

"I did it to protect my Princess from danger, from the unknown creatures that could cause harm to her," Night Blade replied nervously.

Before Shining could carrying on, Celestia moved in front of him to take over the questioning. This caused the Guards to move away from Night Blade, to leave him to face the wrath of the Sun Goddess. Night Blade was tremblingly in pure fear, he could see the heat of rage coming off Celestia as she looked at him with hatred.

"So you don't agree on my sister and I’s choice of guest that we see as no threat to our kingdom? Are you saying that our choice makes us not fit to rule?!" Celestia shouted with rage, staring daggers at Night Blade.

"No, Princess Celestia, I would never think something like that." Night Blade quickly said, lest he be morphed into dandelion fluff.

The rest of the Guards quickly nodded too, not wanting to invoke her wrath. Since she had sent her own Sister to the moon. Her own sister who was just as powerful as her… Celestia could easily crush them like bugs.

Cadence looked on with worry, being the Princess of love so despised of hatred or fear. This was upsetting her a lot, but seeing this, Shining Armor went to comfort his wife in an effort to calm her.

"Night Blade, your punishment will be decided by Luna, since you are one of her Guards. You should be thankful. If you were one of my Sun Guards, you would be in the dungeon by now.

"Yes, thank you, Princess Celestia," Night Blade replied quickly as he bowed to her.

“However, you will be doing double the run Shining Armor has mentioned tomorrow. This is your punishment from me for all your actions.
The rest of you will be running The 1000 miles you are now allowed to go back to your post." Celestia snared to the Guards in the room.

The guards quickly nodded their heads and promptly left the room. The two lovers walk over to Celestia in an effort to calm her down. Before long, the group had made the decision to get ready to go to Ponyville to regroup with the others.

--Ponyville, Inside Twilight’s Library--

Only Twilight was left with Princess Luna, Sin, Bri and Dragon in the Library, because the other ponies had to sort out their jobs. Since they were all spending a day at the castle, they needed to deal with various activities. Celestia had to attend to royal duties, of course, while Shining Armor and Cadence more or less disappeared.

"Umm, Sin, do you mind if I ask a few questions concerning your species?" Twilight asked Sin, a quill and paper caught in her magic aura.

"Sure, I’m cool with it," Sin responded to Twilight, who in turn squealed with joy, causing Luna and Sin to chuckled and Twilight to blush as she then started to question him.

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-Outside of the Crystal Kingdom--

In the coldness of the snow, a set of green glowing eyes appeared. A voice resounded, a voice so cold it could blend in with the frigid air around it.

"Soon my plan will come together, and the days of Ponies will be gone for good."

Deep laughter echoed through the snowy atmosphere.

End of Chapter 15
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