The True Master of Chaos

The dinner had gone on for about an hour, allowing any pony to eat their fill. Some were finished by their first plate, while Big Mac was just getting started on his eighth. As the pile began to move from the table to the floor, Cheerilee tried to keep herself from turning bright red of embarrassment as others watched her date scarf down food like it was never going to satisfy him.

One pony kept her eyes focused on every pony in the crowd, watching as all of the forks and spoons began to stop moving from ponies eating their fill. Soon, only one pony was left eating his final bite of his sandwich. The pink pony gazed his every move as it slowly moved towards his moth.

“Come on…” Pinkie said to herself watching.

Sandwich in the mouth.

“Come on…”

Stallion chewing.

“Come on…”

Swallowing the bite.

“YAY!!!! Now that every pony has finished eating dinner, it’s time for dessert!” Pinkie pie Cheered as she hopped up and down in place. She was disappointed to hear a moan from multiple ponies complaining they were too full.

“OH you Party poopers! There is always room for dessert!” She took off to the bakery and returned pushing out a giant pink cake. “Every pony can come get dessert now!”

Luna couldn’t help but smile at how well things were going that night for her. She had enjoyed the wonderful meal that the town had prepared for her and for her sister, and given so much love by the ponies of that town. It gave her a warmer feeling than she had felt in a long time.

She had enjoyed seeing all of her good friends here like Twilight and the others since it had been so long since coming back to Ponyville. It was always good to get away from the stressful royal life and enjoy more simple ways that most ponies lived. It all was good, except how a certain white unicorn had never stopped staring at her the whole time.

Florence was alone at his table, since the others had left to talk to other ponies. He didn’t mind though, since only one thing was on his mind at that moment. Something he could not get out of his head, no matter how hard he tried to think.

He didn’t know why, but he was almost hypnotized by Luna. He knew it wasn’t because she was simply royalty and he was trying to hook up with her for that. It was something much more than that…

“hey, what’s up loner!” A familiar male voice said.

Florence turned to look at two blue Pegasus standing beside him. Seeing his friend Soarin was able to distract him long enough to be able to talk right, “oh, hey Soarin. Rainbow. Enjoying yourselves?”

“Well, we are. Are you? You’ve been sitting here the whole time not talking to any pony around you, just staring up.” Soarin gave a confused look of what his new friend had been doing the whole time during dinner.

Rainbow nudged her lover on the side to grab his attention, “Well, just so you know, Florence her has got a lock on someone he likes.” Her grin is so big it nearly touches both of her ears, “you should have seen him talking to Princess Luna. It was hilarious seeing how nervous he was!”

Soarin turns back to Florence, seeing it must have been true from how red he had turned, “you like the princess?”

Florence could hardly answer the question, his embarrassment nearly held him back from it, “Well, I-I don’t know. I’ve never felt this way before.”

Soarin looks up to the podium, seeing what had made Florence so infatuated with her. He had to admit when looking at her; he couldn’t help but eye her up and down, looking from her flowing mane and down her nice shapely body. Her wings caught his eye on just how large but perfectly shaped they were. He wanted to say how she was really hot too, but decided to hold his tongue with Rainbow sitting there, “She is cute, I guess.”

“Cute? She…is…GORGEOUS!” He caught himself shouting with his answer, having to stifle his excitement before he drew too much attention for himself.

Soarin and Rainbow nearly fell over from their laughter. After a few moments, the male wonderbolt looked back to his friend who had become more red from his laughs, “Oh Florence, falling for a princess. I have to say, I did not see this coming.” Looking back to the podium, he noticed the princess was looking down at Florence, but turned as soon as she saw him move, afraid to be caught looking. Soarin smiled back to his friend, “why don’t you go talk to her?”

The white unicorn immediately locked into place when hearing that. He had thought about going up to talk to her, but every time he wanted to, his body was shaking uncontrollably and couldn’t force himself up. ‘I don’t want to follow her like a little filly and seem like I’m a creeper.’ He thought to himself, ‘then again, staring at her the whole night did not make her feel any better.’

Frowning, he walked back his two friends, heading towards the cake. Soarin and Rainbow sat their quietly, not knowing what else to say. They both walked back over to their table.

Up on the podium, Princess Luna was enjoying a piece of cake that Pinkie had brought over to her. While the cake was good, something else was keeping her attention. She couldn’t help but keep glancing at the white unicorn she had met when she and her sister arrived in town. Mostly it was due to him staring at her the whole time, but something else kept her looking. She didn’t know what it was, though. Her eyes followed Florence as he walked away over to the dessert.

“Are you going to talk to him?”

Luna’s attention was broken when some pony next to her whispered in her ear. She turned to see Celestia sitting with a little smirk on her face.

Luna tried not to act surprised by the question, but a flush of blush washed across her, “Wh-why do you ask?”

Her older sister smiled and looked down to the white unicorn, “well, perhaps on the reason that he likes you.”

Luna turned even brighter from hearing those words, “Oh, come now, Tia. He is just nervous in meeting a princess.”

“Luna, ive seen him looking at you the whole time in dinner. Why, when we first arrive he could hardly talk to you he was so nervous. And it wasn’t because you were a princess, because he hardly took notice to me standing there.” Celestia frowned after that, still a little upset about being blown off like she wasn’t even there. It quickly turned back to a smile when she looked her sister in the eyes, “And I know you like him too.”

Luna’s wings shot out backwards from what she had just heard. She was at a loss of words from what her older sister just said about her. She was about to completely deny what her sister claimed… but something stopped her from saying anything. She had noticed she had a change in feelings when she arrived in Ponyville, but it wasn’t the hospitality that completely warmed her heart, but she didn’t know what it was.

She did notice when she looked at Florence, that feeling grew. It was strange, though, despite being a relatively handsome unicorn, there was something different about him that made her feel good.

Not wanting to think about it, she got up from her chair and walked down the podium. Celestia called out in confusion, “Luna, where are you going?”

“The bathroom.” She lied, she didn’t have to go; she just wanted to clear her thoughts.

Walking away from the crowds, Luna found herself on a side street where there was no other pony around. She felt relaxed seeing she could get some quiet time-

“I don’t like this with her being here!”

Luna jumped when she heard a voice around a store corner. She didn’t know who it was, but she could tell it was a male. Slowly, out of curiosity, she walked over to the corner of the building and peeked around the corner. She saw a brown earth pony with money bags as his cutie mark, and he was talking to a female earth pony, apparently his wife.

“Filthy, she has changed I tell you. She isn’t bad-“

“Bad?” Filthy Rich snapped, “She is a deceiver! A liar! Luna will turn on us anytime she wants!”

Luna sat there, hearing the painful words come out of the pony’s mouth. ‘He doesn’t trust me?’

Filthy Rich began going off, “She expects us to forgive her so easily when she was Nightmare Moon. Do remember when she first came and threatened our town!? Or how about that Nightmare Night the year after, do you remember how much damage she caused?”

His wife tried to calm him down, “Honey, she has changed, I tell you! She hasn’t tried to hurt any pony since she returned.”

She hasn’t, but she let others get hurt! Do you remember at Shining Armors weeding? She never came to help Canterlot when it was attacked!”

Those words hit Luna right in the heart. She couldn’t come help at the royal wedding; she had other duties she was attending. In fact, she didn't even know about the attack until after the wedding.

"That princess doesn't care about us! She only focuses on what she wants for herself!"

The anger within Luna built to the point to which she couldn't control it anymore. She wanted to face that disrespectful pony and put him in has place. She wanted him to pay for what he had said about her.

'Go on Luna, do it. Kill him!'

Luna's heart stopped when she heard the dark voice creep into her mind. It was the same one which tormented her past. She begins to hyperventilate from panic.

'Do it Luna. You know you want to. I was inside you for a thousand years. I can always see your thoughts'

"NO! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" she screamed out loud, throwing her hooves over her head, "LEAVE ME ALONE!"

'I Told you Luna, I will always be a part of you. I will be within your mind. Forever.'

"NOO!"

"P-princess?"

Luna stopped And spun around. She saw that Filthy Rich and his wife standing there staring at her. Filthy had a face of confusion and fear, not knowing what the night princess had heard of his rant.

Panicked by what was happening, Luna got up and ran as fast as she can away from that spot. She had to get out of there. Ran and ran. She then spread her Wings and took to the sky away from Ponyville.

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"you had better make a move towards her." Rainbow said.

"Ah saw how ya looked at her." Applejack says.

"come on, Florence, don't let me down." Soarin comments.

Florence was surrounded by Twilight and the other element wielders, Spike and Soarin. All stood around him bombarding him with tips and advice.

Twilight tried to slow every pony down and give Florence some time to answer, "Florence, just go talk to her, but do not try to immediately hit on her."

Florence just sat there, listening to all of his friends trying to help him out, "Look, I appreciate your help it's just that... Luna?"

Twilight stared at him, confused at what he said, "what?"

"That's Luna!" He points his hoof at the dark moving object in the sky.

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Luna flew threw the sky, the horrors of what had happened still inside of her mind. She knew she could not stay there.

Down below in the forest, she noticed a small clearing, and sees something familiar in the center of it. Wanting to see what it is, she flies down to it.

Landing in the clearing, she looks to her right, and sees a large statue towering above her. It is the statue of nightmare moon.

Staring at it, old emotions begin rushing to her, from before, during, and after her nightmare moon terror. All of what she had done in her past came back in a powerful wave.

Not able to hold it back, Luna drops to the ground and tears began to pour from her eyes. She couldn't control it anymore. She suddenly hears footsteps from behind her. She turns to see a black and white creature walking towards her.

"My my, who could this be?" the female zebra said, "why it's princess Luna that I see."

Luna recognized it as Zecora, the Zebra local to the Everfree forest next to Ponyville. Trying to dry her tears, she stared at he zebra, and tried to talk through her sobs, "Z-Zecora, wh-What are you doing here?"

Zecora answered with her normal flow of rhymes, "I  was walking to find a root for my potion, and then I heard a small commotion."

Luna put her head down, not wanting to talk about what had happened to her.

"Princess!" someone shouted.

Luna turned around and saw twilight and her friends coming through the trees, followed by Spike, Florence and Soarin. She was suprised to see them all, "how did you find me?"

Twilight quickly answered, "This is where you went when the last time you were upset."

Luna quickly thought back, and remembered when she was sitting here five years ago on nightmare night.

Rarity noticed the zebra there too, "Oh, Zecora? What are you doing here?"

"Why, this place is home to me. you should remember that, miss Rarity".

Luna once again looked at all the ponies around her, "Why did you all follow me out here?"

They all glanced around at each other, as If confused why the princess would ever even ask that. Twilight was the first to answer, "Luna, friends will always look out for each other."

"Oh yes, we wanted to make sure you were alright." Fluttershy said.

Yeah! I mean you left before the dessert was done! Oh and you didn't say around for the after dinner party!" pinkie pie hopped up and down happily.

Rarity spoke next, "Why darling, did you think we were going to let you come out here yourself?"

"Y'all have ta remember we will always be here for ya." Applejack said cheerfully.

"You can always count on us, princess." Spike added in.

"Yeah, you can always expect us to help you out." Rainbow bursted out.

Luna smiled at all of them, another tear of happiness fell down her cheek. Se looked past them and saw Florence standing there.

Being so nervous, Florence didn't know what to say. He felt a push from behind, and saw it was Soarin. Sporting a cheeky grin, his wonderbolt friend signaled him to go to her.

Reluctantly, he found the courage to do so. He walked over to Luna, who was still on he ground. He knelt down by her, "So, Luna, are you going to worry us like that again?" He gave a nice smile towards her.

Luna smiled back at the unicorn by her side. She once again felt the warm feeling in her heart return.

Zecora smiled as she saw what happened before her, "well well, this is a sight. It has been an eventful night." she trotted over to all of he ponies and the dragon, "Remember, the power of friendship is one to cherish, for as long as you live it will never perish."

Every pony smiled at each other from what Zecora had said, because they knew it was true. Pinkie pie bounded up all of a sudden, "oh, this is just like the hearthes warming eve play, you know; friendship leads to the creation of Equestria!"

Luna shook her head, and spoke without thinking"Oh, that old lie."

Every pony, dragon and zebra were caught off guard at what was said.

Suddenly, Luna's eyes snapped open, and panic rushed to her head. 'oh no, what did I jut do!?' she looks at all of the confused faces around her.

Twilight walks forward and stares Luna in the eye, "what do you mean by 'old lie'?"

Luna is so stunned. She didn't even realize what she had said until it was too late. 'Oh Celestia. Master. Forgive me.'