Cadance Rising

"Sister, something novel has joined the night sky."

Celestia looked up from the scroll she was reading. "Luna?" she said. "I wasn't expecting to see you until morning. What do you mean?"

"There is a new star in the sky, Sister." Luna pulled back the curtain and looked out, presumably searching for the star.

"Is that so odd?" Celestia returned to reading the letter. "As I recall, you used to make new stars all the time."

Luna continued staring. "We didn't make this one."

"What?" Celestia stood up, her wings fluttering as she rose. She joined her sister at the window and saw a green speck of light near the horizon, twinkling brightly, that she had never seen before. "But if you didn't make it, then who did?"

***

"I can't believe you!"

"Look, I said I was sorry, already. Can't you just forgive me?"

"You promised me!"

"I know, and I said I was sorry!"

This wasn't going at all like Cadance had expected. What she had thought would be a quiet day with Shining Armor had turned into a siblings' argument, and the Princess of Love was not feeling very good about the tones their voices were taking.

Twilight pawed at the ground, snorting in anger. "If you wanted to spend today with your wife, all you had to do was tell me. Instead, I travel all morning, and when I get here, I find out you already have tickets to take your wife to see the ballet!"

The brother and sister were quite close now, Twilight having backed Shining Armor up against a wall. Cadance tried to distract her fury, saying, "Why don't you take my ticket and go with Shining Armor instead?"

In a much softer voice, Twilight said, "Oh, no, Cadance. I know how much you like the theater. And I'm not really a fan of The Oatcracker." She turned back to Shining Armor and her voice darkened. "Besides, that's not the point. The point is my idiot brother," she tapped the stallion in the chest aggressively, "forgetting that we scheduled an afternoon together!" Twilight lifted up her day planner, and sure enough, the date was circled and "Book Shopping with Shining" was written in bold lettering.

"Hey, come on now." Cadance's heart quivered as Shining flashed that goofy smile that had won her over all those years ago. "You know I'm not as good with that planning stuff as you are, Twilee."

"Don't you 'Twilee' me, Mister! This is the third thing you've forgotten this summer!" The pages of her planner flipped wildly as Twilight found the incriminating dates. "First, that picnic we were going to have that fell on the same day as the Induction Ceremony for the new Royal Guard recruits. Then, you were going to take me to Pony Joe's to make up for that, but when I got here, you were in Fillydelphia with the Princesses. And now this!"

Shining Armor's eyes glanced from side to side as he searched for some way out of the situation. He finally landed on Cadance, pleading with her silently to do something, anything, to help. Cadance shrugged. She had never seen Twilight this upset before, and, to be fair, Shining Armor did sort of have it coming.

Still... Cadance wracked her brain as Twilight continued to berate her brother, and then realized that she had the perfect solution. "I'm just going to, um, head out, for a bit," Cadance said.

Twilight nodded, saying, "Maybe that would be best," just as Shining Armor shook his head vehemently and said, "No, I really think you should stay."

Cadance nodded as well. "Yeah, I think I'm going to leave the house." She stepped meekly through the open door. "Through the back door. The back door to the house." She closed it most of the way, leaving a sliver of space to peek through. She was now in the library, a large, comfortable room furnished with books. But she wasn't interested in reading right now. Cadance's attention was focused on the confrontation going on in the living room.

"Princess of Love" was more than just a title - it was Cadance's special talent. Her magic, which Aunt Celestia said came from being an alicorn, dealt with love. Somehow, Cadance was able to help ponies see the things they loved about each other, stopping disharmony and spreading love wherever she went. Love was her domain, romantic and platonic. It was familial love that concerned her as she watch Twilight pacing back and forth, so mad with her brother she could barely speak.

Cadance's horn glowed blue as she concentrated. With her magic, she searched for the things that Twilight and Shining loved about each other, and then, with a burst of magic, a broken heart floated from the tip of her horn and circled around the two siblings. With a spark that went unnoticed by Twilight or Shining, the two halves of the heart joined together and disappeared. Both Twilight and Shining Armor stopped talking. They stared at one another, as though seeing each other for the first time.

"I'm sorry, Big Brother," Twilight said. Her ears drooped as she said it.

"I'm sorry too," Shining responded. He bowed his head. "I really do want to spend time with you, and it's really stupid of me to forget when you plan something."

"I shouldn't have gotten so angry. I miss you! Since I moved to Ponyville, I feel like I never talk to you anymore."

Shining Armor put his hooves around his sister in a big hug. "It's all my fault. I'll make it up to you, I promise. Why don't you come with us to the ballet tonight? I'm sure the Captain of the Royal Guard can scrounge up an extra ticket somewhere." Nodding, Twilight returned the hug.

"Good," Cadance said to herself quietly. "I knew that I could help get that cleared up." Shining gave Twilight a quick kiss on the head. It cheered Cadance to no end to see her two favorite ponies make up. She loved both of them so much that, wait, what were they doing?

Twilight had returned the peck on the head with one on the cheek. "I really missed you," she said, so softly that Cadance could hardly hear. Shining nuzzled his sister, not with that roughness that older brothers usually used on their little siblings, but gentler... Cadance thought it was kind of like the way he nuzzled her when she and Shining Armor were alone together. Something was wrong.

"I love you," Twilight said, and then her words were eclipsed by Shining's mouth as he brought it to hers. Cadamce gasped, quickly muffling herself with a hoof. The two were locked in a kiss.

"Oh, Twilee," Shining moaned. Stumbling about so as not to break the kiss, the two moved to the couch and collapsed on it, Shining's bulky frame covering Twilight. The furniture sagged and creaked under their weight, but the movements of the brother and sister only grew more intense. Not content with one, Twilight peppered her brother's face with kisses, his lips, his cheeks, his chin, any part of him she could reach.

This was wrong, Cadance knew. Brothers and sisters weren't supposed to do these types of things. And Shining Armor was hers, not Twilight's! She wanted to open the door, to barge in and pull Shining off his sister, but something, fear?, worry?, stopped her. She merely pressed her face closer to the crack in the door and watched.

Shining Armor was thrusting his hips, now, while Twilight lay on her back underneath him. In between the purple fur and the white, Cadance could see his dark black shaft rubbing against Twilight's belly. It must have felt good, because he was groaning loudly and increasing his speed. "I need it," Twilight panted, her voice dripping with desire. "I need your cock inside of me!"

Pulling back, Shining angled his stallionhood downward, nudging until it was aligned properly. Then, in one swift thrust, he plunged in. He sank into Twilight's mareness, her hole swallowing up the flared head and even Shining's thick medial ring with ease. Shining and Twilight grunted, and he withdrew his shaft halfway before burying it back into Twilight's wetness again.

A bolt of pleasure shot through Cadance, making her whimper. She shook her head to clear it, and looked down. Somehow, her hoof had gone between her legs and begun rubbing her private place slowly. She could feel, all of a sudden, the tension in her loins as her slick inner walls clenched to grasp a phallus that wasn't there. Cadance chastised herself, telling herself what she was doing was wrong, and dirty, but as she continued to watch Shining rut Twilight, her hoof snaked its way back to her nethers, pressing against the sensitive area in an untrained, but wholly enjoyable way.

"Twilee!" Shining moaned. The tremor in his voice told Cadance that he was close, something Twilight must have understood as well, because she said, "Give it to me!"

Cadance felt a pressure welling up inside her, something she had never experienced before. It was a tingling, itching feeling, that started under her belly and traveled up her spine and through each of her legs. Her horn, too, was starting to fizz and spark, as magic leaked out of it. It was a feeling she had never felt before, but it was... Good. Really good. Amazing!

"Twilee, I'm-" Shining Armor pulled back, his - had Twilight called it a cock? - his cock slipping out of Twilight with a wet slurping noise. Twilight's horn glowed, and a pink haze enveloped it, rubbing the shaft back and forth. Shining shuddered, and then his whole body jerked and semen erupted from the tip. The white liquid spurted out, great gobs of it landing on Twilight's chest, on her belly, even a stray shot on her neck. Twilight continued to stroke him with her magic, whispering to him under her breath, until the final bit of semen had leaked out of the tip and dribbled down the curve of her inner thigh, past her marehood, and landed on the purple fabric of the couch.

His forelegs giving out, Shining Armor collapsed on top of Twilight, rubbing his seed into their fur between them. They were both breathing hard, their bodies heaving with the exertion of their copulation. Cadance's hoof stopped its ministrations. Her whole body felt tense, like a spring wound up and ready to burst, but she didn't know what she was supposed to do next, what was supposed to happen now.

She had been masturbating - Cadance realized that now - and it was wrong. It was a filthy habit, one Cadance had never taken part in before, but as she smelled her juices in the air, felt them drying on her hoof and on her crotch, she knew what she had done. Her lower lips felt painful, overly sensitive now, as if in punishment for her misdeed.

"Shining?" Twilight said. Cadance returned to looking through the crack. Twilight's ears were drooping as she stared at her brother. " Shining get off me." Her voice was rushed, and quivering. With a burst of magic, she lifted Shining up in the air and dumped him unceremoniously to the ground. Twilight's eyes opened wide in shock as they saw the matted fur, the sticky fluids drying all over her body. "What, how could we do that?" she shrieked.

Pulling himself up, Shining looked at his slowly receding penis as though he had only just realized that it had been inside his little sister. "I didn't mean to-" he began to say. "I wasn't- Twilee!" With the sound of a balloon popping, a sphere of pink magic surrounded Twilight, and she was gone, teleported away somewhere. Shining scanned the room quickly, determined she wasn't there, then hurried up the stairs and into the hallway on the second floor. In a minute, the sound of water running in the bathroom came through.

Cadance tipped over onto her back and stared up at the ceiling, her back legs spread wide to keep from touching her sore, puffy lips. "What have I done?" she said. "I wanted to help them love each other, not do... that." What Twilight and Shining Armor had done was so, animalistic, so wrong, so unlike the dignified, quiet, sensible copulation that Cadance enjoyed with Shining now that the two of them were married. And yet, some part of Cadance deep down inside had liked it, enjoyed it, had love love loved the way it made her feel, and that scared her.

Something was wrong with her magic, maybe even with her, and she needed to talk to somepony about it. Cadance got to her hooves and, using her magic, cleaned herself up the best she could. The smell still lingered over her body, but Cadance hoped it would dissipate once she got outside. She had to go to the castle, and she had to go right now.