Chapter 5:Plan of action

Ticking of the clock chimed at nine, three hours have passed since Luna returned from the western coast and already bad news has been reported, though of course Celestia barely calls a burning village in the west bad news. Luna though wasn't joking around, her entrance in the capital, being a bit messy came with news of more than just a disease, but an all out attack on pony kind. At first Celestia shrugged off this attack on pony kind as bandits, but when her eyes fell upon the bloody sheet and unconscious body of a bipedal creature, she began to question her doubts. At this moment Luna was staring down her sister, not just to her ignorance, but to her lack of caring to her subjects, or other pony lives, yet Celestia didn't want to see it, she didn't, it wasn't Equestria's first contact policy to engage and destroy.

“I just don't see it dear Lulu, these things hardly seem a threat are you sure it wasn't just running scared. Have you tried talking to it?” Luna stared at her sister as if she ran into a wall.

“Tia, these things, they don't speak, at least i don't think they do and i’m sure as tartarus they don't negotiate!” Luna countered trying to talk sense into her sister, true by all accounts Equestrian policy is to negotiate first to stop an impending fight. Yet she’s seen time and again these creatures, whatever they are, have no interest in negotiation.

Before an argument could break out the sound of doors to the east wing closing turned their attention to both Cadence and Shining armor entering the throne room, Celestia smiled to see her niece enter the throne chambers and stood up to greet her. Luna greeted the two, it was a shock at first for Luna too, after finding out she had a niece and when she did she was hesitant to engage in conversation with her. At the Gala it all changed, the two hit it off and Luna could clearly tell she had the hots for Shining armor, it was even on that starry night the princess of love asked her how to love a stallion. Luna cracked a smile at the thought she was told both she and Shining had already had three dates together without attracting attention to the nobility and she wanted the night after the gala to be perfect. Looking at her niece now Luna clearly gave the princess of love good advice to pleasure a stallion, after seeing the small rope of cum on her chin Luna knew Cadence scored. Celestia however once she got closer saw the rope of seed and looked utterly displeased with her niece. Cadence's jaws clenched worried her aunt was going to blow a gasket soon, fortune smiled for her when her other aunt Luna covered for her.

“Whatever is the matter sister, are thou glad to see thy niece?” Celestia raised her brow wondering why her sister isn't scolding her niece as well.

“Luna, are you not going to address the seed ever so present on Cadence's lips, she's a princess, not some cheap whore” that hit a nerve, Cadence looked taken aback that her aunt would call her such a name, Luna however covered for her.

“Tis no seed dear Tia, just whipped cream from the castle kitchen, had some myself on my vanilla ice cream a few days ago” Celestia sighed, which proved just enough time for Luna to give a sly smile and wink at Cadence.

Celestia however wanted to hear it from her niece “dearest cadence are you sure that's cream and not cum!?” she waited for her answer, only for Cadence to nod her head.

“Yes, Shiny and I were sharing a sundae together. We ate it before we went to take a rest, I must have missed a spot to wipe my face!” Celestia slowly nodded, unaware if she should believe her niece, again Luna drew her sister's attention, this time by changing the subject to the threat in the west.

“Tis not important dear sister, cream can wash off, but this threat dear Tia is far more important!” Celestia, now curious, turned to her sister wanting to know what was so important, noticing the covered objects under a tarp with one moving slightly, she raised her brow more curious than ever now.

“What’s under the tarp, dear Lulu?” Celestia, eager to see what Luna found, wasn't ready for what she was about to see.

Turning to her team she gave a firm nod “stand back!” she ordered, her sister, cadence Shiny and other guards stood back waiting to see what Luna had brought, and sure enough, they weren't ready.

In a violent fashion a furious bipedal creature, in only its loincloth, lunged at the now terrified Celestia, Shiny in a desperate attempt, rushed past his marefriend and erected a shield. His shield blocked the creature from going any further, but Luna wasn't worried, for around its neck was a rope, used to bind and nullifie alicorn magic. Cadence herself hid behind her aunt Terrified of such a violent and horrendous creature.

Celestia just stared at the thing, too shocked to even comprehend, her thoughts were soon beaten by her captain Shining Armor “what in the name of torturous is that thing!” His response was met with Luna shaking her head.

“I don't know, but more of these things are out there and have already caused plenty of damage and death!”. She replied and watched Celestia, still terrified, look at the creature in astonishment.

“Where did it come from?!” she asked, keeping her eyes on the vicious beast, not even flinching when a small squad of royal guards ponies burst through the main hall door, ready to protect her highness. She stopped them, after showing she wasn't harmed in any way, but when they spotted the creature, it too spotted them, Charging it was quickly stopped by the rope. Snarling it was eager to tear into pony flesh, wanting to taste blood, all the while seeing their fear as their organs were torn out, the guards who held their spears and muskets, shook in terror, some even voided bladders after it began to smile.

Luna, ignoring the now-forming smell of piss, shook her head “we don't know, All we know is it was connected to this ship running aground, we weren't able to investigate it when your champion ran off!”

Celestia raised her brow “Goldbeam?-” she shook her head “-he’s well trained, he wouldn't-” she stopped when Luna pulled the tarp off his headless corpse, Celestia gawked at his headless body. She couldn't believe it, her champion, the champion selected by not just her but the nobility themselves lied dead before her. She then noticed his cutie marks, or lack thereof “-his cutie mark? What happened to his cutie mark!?”

Luna looked down to his skinned flank, but was beaten to the punch by Hard Scotch “they skinned em lass-” he said nonchalantly taking a swig of Equestrian bourbon, luna giving a sigh “-took em as trophies, gave a him a good butt shave!”

Nervously chuckling Luna nodded, throwing her hoof up “basically what he said” Celestia looked down at her dead champion, then at the creature, gritting her teeth, she turned to the panicked squad of guards.

“Take this thing and put it in the dungeon, i’ll-” she was interrupted when a new voice entered the room and three pairs of hooves followed suit.

“That won't be necessary, your highness!” a stallion replied, he was a unicorn, had a tan lab coat, white coat, yellow mane and wore a pair of spectacles, his cutie mark resembled a surgical lamp.

Celestia smugly scoffed “director Lablight! I wondered why I smelled horse shit!” Lablight chuckled at Celestia’s insult, he always enjoyed her quirks and decided to return the favor

“(chuckles) oh Celestia, with all the cake you eat, i’m surprised i’m not walking in it!” he smirked giving a retort to her insulting quip to him, he chuckled again seeing Cadence trying desperately to hold her aunt back. His eyes soon fell on Luna, he smiled and went up to her “now who might you be?!”

“Thy names Luna, who are thou speaking to!?” Luna looked at the approaching unicorn, she swore her sister addressed him as Lablight, but this was the first she’s seen him.

“Thy name’s Lablight-” he introduced, levitating her hoof and kissing it “-the rumors of your beauty in the night sky aren’t exaggerated. A gentle breeze on a full moon, on a cool night. your stars are that of silver and your mane is of fine silk!” Luna just stood there as he walked back to his escort, all the while Luna’s face made a look that said “HUH”. After being back in Equestria for nearly a year and Luna was still getting used to how ponies talk to each other, other than the bedroom, she has that in spades. All the while Snappshot on her left chuckled, she raised a brow at him.

“He says you're beautiful” he smiled, Luna slowly nodding understanding what he meant, she’s had stallions hit on her before, though not in the way Lablight did. Usually most stallions would hit on her saying ‘nice ass toots’, or ‘i have a pole at home, want to dance on it?’. Of course that last one was from a pegasus pony named Turbulent Spear, that pony was so incredibly horny, he made the most dominant bachelors submissive, after he gave them what he called ‘the Turbulent smile’ whatever that was.

Luna leaned in and whispered to Snapp Shot “ Snapp who is this stallion and who are those ponies in armor?!” the sniper nodded and began to explain.

“It was three years ago-” he began, hoping to make the rundown short “- they came out of Cloudsdale, calling themselves the Black Eyeris, An extremist pegasi group hoping to bring back the pegasi legion-”

Luna looked at him stunned and confused “pegasus legions, but they died out years before my banishment!-” she also pointed out “- and Lablights a unicorn, not a pegasus!?”

Snapp Shot chuckled “-true yes, which is why, they’re not too picky on who joins the legion now and have both land and air bases. Anyway there was an incident that day three years ago, Celestia demanded the Black eyeris to bow and pay homage to her, after they demanded a solitary area for a lab in canterlot. After their decline and spitting on Celestia’s horse shoes, the guard got involved. I was a cadet on castle tour when it happened. For seven hours fighting broke out in the castle, but we didn't stand a chance. The armor the black eyeris had was incredibly thick, not even a mussle ball can pierce it, in the end out of the fifty guards that took part in the fight, only ten died, the rest were critically injured. Now Celestia doesn't even bother, they take no orders from any form of royalty and as for their leader, nopony knows who he is, all anypony knows is that his name is the ‘Secretary’!”

Lablight cleared his throat, gathering the ponies in the room, his attention “with your leave, i’ll be taking the prisoner to the lab, good day ponies-” he then looked at the princesses “-your highnesses!”

Once the black eyeris left, Celestia stood fumigated, Luna looked to Snapp Shot knowing they still needed to find the ship that ran aground hours earlier “Snapp prep a carriage and have the squad resupply, we’ll be heading out soon!” Quickly he boud and left, Celestia turned to her sister.

“Find that ship dear Lulu and see what you can find, I'll try to speak to it and see what it knows.” Luna shook her head, her sister's idea of still wanting to bring peace would go nowhere.

“Dear Tia, that thing doesn't want peace, it wants violence, Snapp Shot's brother Photoshot, has pictures of the attack, both he and Rapid were the only two survivors we found!” Celestia looked at her sister with disdain after hearing about two western ponies currently in Canterlot, course she speculated her sister did that.

“You brought two Lunar ponies to Canterlot! Our city!” Celestia was enraged now, if what she speculated was true, that her sister brought Lunar ponies here to Canterlot, then it meant her sister was conversing with the enemy.

Luna snorted, she didn't need her sister's approval to bring survivors to the capitol “yes i did, so what! They needed help and I wasn't going to leave them there, not to those things!”

“Leaving them there would be more merciful” Celestia spat, earning a glare from her sister and making her snarl. Cadence winced and was shocked her Aunt would suggest such a thing, her coltfriend, too was shocked, as he never seen Celestia act this way.

Shaking her head, Luna turned and left, flicking her tail at her sister, the equivalent of a minotaur giving another the finger and telling some creature to shove it, the pony way of telling one to buck themselves. An eerie silence befell the room, shining not wanting to say anything, giving his love a quick kiss before leaving to do his duties, he swore he could feel Celestia glaring at him as he left. Once the room was relatively empty aside from a few guards, Cadence awkwardly traipsed her hoof on the floor before turning to leave, her aunt standing in the center of the room seething in anger.

“And where in Equestria do you think you’re going MISSY!!” Cadence closed her eyes and let out an exasperated sigh ‘so close’ she thought, turning around, her aunt was standing in front of her with a glare that could rival a hydra.

Turning she crudely joked to her aunt “well hopefully to the bathroom once we’re done here” she watched her aunt's frown turn to a snarl and she swore she heard her aunt growl at her.

“PRINCESS MI AMORE CADENZA, this is not how a princess acts, a princess acts with…” she was stopped by her niece speaking in a mock tone.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah a princess acts with decorum, has proper etiquette, a princess cannot be deflowered till marriage, she cannot leave the royal grounds and must stay within the castle till she is ready to perform her duties! Yeah I get it!” Celestia snorted at her niece's attitude.

This time it was Cadence who was on the offensive as she began to explain her predicament “Celestia please of the love of this nation, would you give it a rest! Every day I walk down the halls speaking to the same guards every day, the same doorways and the same bathroom door i sadly named Ricky. So what if I went down to the training yard, so what if I hung out with Shining armor? If I'm supposed to be the princess of this Crystal Empire you keep talking about, then should I know how my military runs, should I be with the ones I love. You did say I'm the princess of love right, so why are you complaining if I was with shining armor, he’s my coltfriend!”

Celestia was seething at this point, she’s never had her niece talk back to her in any way before and now she knew her niece mated with her captain, but she already knew, she did smell the sex coming from her captain and her nieces genitals. Playing the ignorant princess she wiped the cream off her nieces lip and licked it “whipped cream my royal plot, this is seed!”

Cadence scoffed and rolled her eyes, “yes that's cum, but he didn't deflower me, i drank him then i took it up the ass”, again she got the words in before Celestia said otherwise. Her anger was at a boiling point now and she was about ready to burst when a thought came to her, a nasty thought, Smiling she began to circle her neice.

“Well if that's all that you did then there's no harm done, however last i checked if a stallion rutted a princess before he proposed to her then he is to be punished for his act!” Celestia now behind Cadence made sure her smile was hidden.

Cadence raised her brow “punished, what punishment, i read the princess hoof book you gave me, there was no mention of any punishment if a stallion slept with a princess?!”

Celestia fiend ignorance tapping her wing to her chin “really, oh yes that was the Equestrian hoofbook, written five hundred years ago, no i’m talking about the solar hoofbook!”

Cadence puzzled shook her head “solar hoofbook? What does it have to do with Shining, or stallions?”

“You didn't know!-” she whispered in her niece's ear “-they’re gelded!”

Cadence's heart quivered in fear, looking at her aunt, she slowly backed away “yo-you wouldn't!”

Celestia shrugged as if it was a big deal “if i have to protect you i will, otherwise snip-snip!”

Cadence shook her head “protect me?! Protect me from what!”

Celestia smiled and rubbed her niece’s mane “it's not important, more simple really. All you have to do is keep it under your tail, you do that and Shining armor won't get his cords cut!”

Cadence couldn't believe what she was hearing, turning she stormed off, tears streaming in her eyes, Celestia smiling knowing her threat of control had gotten through. Turning several stallions who listened crossed their hindlegs as she passed through into the throne room, unaware of the set of ears listening in on their conversation.

Author's Note

Chapter five everyone, let me know what you think please R&R. Would Celestia really go through with her threat if Cadence slept with Shining again, or was it an empty threat and who was listening in and why does Director Lablight want this dark creature?!