Dusk to Dawn

“She is a very sweet mare…” Princess Luna even hesitated in her own thoughts, “and a very beautiful one at that.”  She thought this to herself as she headed back towards the bustling city of Canterlot so that she could sneak back into the place and wash herself off before anypony discovered the dust and sweat on her body, the hay in her mane and tail, and her rugged smell.

Successfully slipping past the watchful eyes of all the guards below, Princess Luna landed on the terrace from which she had taken off, and slipped quietly back into the hallway.  Sneaking past her sister’s room, Princess Lana continued to quietly sneak down the stairs and find her way to the bath house, which for reasons she couldn’t really explain, was not really a “house”, just a very large room.

Shrugging the strange naming off (much like she did the new, alien words that she saw all around her now), Princess Luna pushed the door open and walked inside the steamy, warm room with its graceful, decorative waterfall which had not changed any since she had last seen it all those many years ago.  Walking around the pool on the intricate marble floor, Princess Luna circled around it all and found the place where the water was deepest, closest to the waterfall.  Wanting to outstretch her wings and simply jump in so that she could wash more off in less time, Princess Luna knew she shouldn’t try it, lest her sister hear.  It wasn’t unusual, sure, for the goddess of the moon to take her baths at night, but Luna knew her sister too well.  A simple “Oh, I’m just taking a little bath” explanation wouldn’t fool her at all, any pieces of filth that might remain on her could be seen.

That in mind, Princess Luna walked down the first couple of steps into the nice, warm, and welcoming water, and then quietly swam the rest of the way out to the center of the pool.  Dunking her head beneath the water, Princess Luna let her mane soak and watched as the debris from it floated easily toward the filter (ingeniously created to send all of the debris down a pipe and filter out the rest of the water so that it would come back clean from the waterfall, a rather astounding technical feat Luna thought).

Coming up for a breath of air, Princess Luna continued to swim around and let the warm water cover her body.  Eventually though, she felt through her mane and some choice spots on her body to come to the conclusion that she had cleaned herself and had thoroughly washed away any evidence of her late night farm work and play.

But she still felt unclean, not “fresh” as she had heard all the other mares call it.  That problem, she knew, lay between her hind legs.  Flipping onto her back, the Princess backed up against the wall which faced the door and perched herself up on its fine marble seat.  Looking down into the clear water, Princess Luna took notice of her vagina and saw that indeed was perhaps the sweatiest part of her body.

A frown on her face, Princess Luna rubbed it with her hoof gently as she tried to get some of the debris off from it, but to no avail.  Princess Luna looked up and searched through the steam to find a sponge which had always been kicked around a never put up.  She found it eventually by the towel rack and pulled it closer to her.  As she usually did, Princess Luna located the bottle of always fresh and extravagant smelling suds, and poured a quarter of it into the pool.  The waterfall mixed it up quickly and filled the whole room with sweet smelling bubbles.  She dipped the sponge into the water once, twice, and then three times, making sure to get a good bit of soap onto the sponge.

Using her magic, Princess Luna brought the sponge to her hoof.  Letting a little, bored sigh out, Princess Luna plunged the sponge beneath the water and targeted her “dirty” organ.  It felt good, arousing to her, she could not deny, as she rubbed all over herself with the soapy sponge.  It had been so long since she had approached a stallion and had been aroused in any way.  She had never actually had intercourse, but she had read about it, and it seemed like somewhere, buried deep within her mind with the memories of the old world, that she would come into this very room and touch herself every now and then.  It all seemed ludicrous though, so she pushed the thought aside and decided that it was not a real memory, just something that she thought had happened as a result of her cycle.

Smiling just a little bit, Princess Luna accidently hit her clitoris and caused herself to wink, sending a pleasurable little tickle up her spine.  Satisfied that she had sponged herself off enough, Princess Luna brought the sponge up again, and grasping it with her magic, dunked it into the water once more.

Satisfied with her previous job, Princess Luna moved up to her breasts.  She couldn’t really explain this strange feeling, a feeling which she had forgotten in all that time of banishment, but she so liked the feeling of the soapy sponge gliding over and tickling her breasts.

If there was one thing that Luna knew though, it was that she was in estrus.  The two sisters had the mind-set to keep their sexual desires under control.  Because, as they saw it, the needs of the ponies were always greater than theirs, a rule which Princess Luna had so foolishly forgotten so long ago; she frowned.

It wasn’t like she hadn’t washed down there of course, it was just that she had never been aroused by it.  “Should we be aroused?” she thought as she looked down and started to swap the sponge between her breasts and her vagina.  These feelings conflicted her.  She felt guilty, dirty for doing this to her body, but at the same time, she felt it was ok of her because she had not felt aroused in so long.

Then, Princess Luna touched herself with her un-shoed hoof, she couldn’t resist it.  “It... it has been a long time,” Princess Luna reminded nopony but herself as she looked below the water and watched her hoof rub.  “Mmh…” Princess Luna let out a quiet squeak as she massaged her clitoris slowly, circling around it.

She continued to watch herself masturbate, but shifted her eyes up to see some of her juices flowing down the pool and towards the drainage filter.  She felt so dirty!  She was a princess for crying out loud, she shouldn’t be doing this!  But the princess just couldn’t stop, she needed to pleasure herself.

“Ah…Ah…” Princess Luna quietly squeaked as she had a small orgasm, some juices flowing out into the pool.   Wanting a little more out of herself though, Princess Luna stopped rubbing her clitoris and used her hoof to go up and down her entire vagina, pleasuring herself very much.  “I…I wonder what sister would say if she walked in?” Princess Luna smiled weakly, her blush deep red as she glanced at the door.

To excite herself just a little more, Princess Luna stopped rubbing her pussy and moved up to her breasts.  She touched them only a few times and then went back to her vagina.

The princess sped up her massaging, and soon, she could sense that she was close, close to getting the stress and tension out of her body.  She stopped rubbing up and down herself entirely, and moved up to her clitoris which she hoofed quickly.  Only after a few seconds more, Princess Luna had an orgasm which sent the most wonderful feeling throughout her body and through her nerves.  She continued to rub herself, and placed her free hoof over her mouth to muffle the micro-screams she was letting out.  Starting to slow her massaging down, Princess Luna looked down and watched her juices string out of her vagina slowly, and like the last juices had, flow down towards the drainage filter, leaving no evidence of her little activity.

But then, Princess Luna felt choked up with tears.  She felt so guilty!  It was true, she had studied books on pony anatomy and breeding habits, sure, she even clearly recalled reading the section which detailed masturbation as tending to be a natural process, but it still seemed unlike her to be doing this.  Princess Luna was then angry, irritated.  She had not had these sexually driven impulses until after she had returned from her banishment.  Her sister could control her sexual impulses perfectly!  She didn’t need to pleasure herself to get this feeling to go away!  A few seconds later though, Princess Luna was sad.  A frown on her face, she ran her hoof through the water, making little splashes as she thought about how she had nopony.  Granted, her sister didn’t either, but Princess Celestia had never really taken an interest in wanting a relationship.  Each and every stallion Luna had come across in this time had shown remotely no interest in her, or had feared her, seeing her as a strange, alien relic, something which did not belong.

Some tears running from her eyes, Princess Luna dried them quickly and scooped up some of the warm water in her hooves, splashing it onto her face.  Deciding that she was clean enough, Princess Luna climbed out of the pool and walked slowly over to the small towel closet.  Using her magic, she pulled one out and began drying herself off.  She used her magic to multitask, and rolled her mystical mane and tail dry while she wrapped the towel all around her body and got the water out of her coat.  Blushing, and demanding her mind to stay clean as she did so, Princess Luna used her magic to bring the towel underneath her and rub her breasts and vagina dry.

Successfully preventing herself from becoming aroused and caught up in the moment once more, Princess Luna tossed the towel into the nearby bin and walked slowly towards the door.  Not really caring if anypony heard, Princess Luna trudged back to the hallway, her great, shoed hooves making a loud tap as they hit the floor.  She walked right past her sister’s room and back out onto the terrace from which she had taken off from earlier.

The wind continued to dry her off even more as she walked across the terrace and went back to the very same wall from which she had leaned over.  Doing as she had previously done, Princess Luna propped herself up onto the stone wall and looked down at the bustling city below.  Hearing its soft buzz, Princess Luna looked straight forward and saw a yacht flying in the distance, most likely for some type of party over the sea to the north.  Getting bored of the fancy flying contraption quickly, Princess Luna returned to looking down.

“What is there to do?” Princess Luna thought to herself, acknowledging that her “shift” was nowhere near close to over, and being bored out of her mind.  Normally, she would take a flight out somewhere, but tonight she just didn’t feel like it.  She looked back towards her flank and watched with a bored look in her eye as she outstretched her left wing and bent and flexed it.

She put her wing back against her body and returned to looking down at Canterlot.  At this point in time, it really seemed like Princess Luna would simply have to “tough” this night out.  “I believe that is what ponies say…” Princess Luna shook off the vocabulary usage and prepared to go back inside and perhaps go down to the library.  Feeling rather relieved that it did, Princess Luna’s stomach grumbled, and she decided that it would be OK to treat herself out and go get something to eat.  Backing away from the wall, Princess Luna outstretched her wings and jumped from the terrace to fly to the streets below, going to Canterlot in search of something to do to end this night faster.