Liquid Pride

"Mares and gentlecolts, we are gathered here today to witness the union of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Shining Armor." Princess Celestia began narrating the ceremony. Everything was working out. Cadance was winning. She was so proud of herself. She was such a lateral thinker. Plans within plans. Now it was only a matter of time. All she had to do was take a knee and run out the clock. She listened to the sun Princess prattle on about 'love' and so much other tripe.

Soon

"Princess Cadance and Shining Armor, it is my great pleasure to pronounce you-"

"STOP!" A yell came from the hallway. Twilight threw open the grand doors to the hall. Cadance wondered for a moment for what purpose the door guards even served standing there besides collecting a paycheck.

"Ugh! Why does she have to be so possessive of her brother!?" Cadance growled, gaining an odd glance from Princess Celestia. Buck! She put on the tears. "Why does she have to ruin my special day?" She cried.

Wait a minute, if SHE managed to escape from the crystal caves, then that means-

"Because it's not your special day! It's MINE!" Cadence yelled, appearing in the grand doorway with Twilight.

"You're too late!" Cadance said.

"I don't understand. How can there be two of them?" Applejack asked.

"She's a changeling!" Cadence explained. "She takes the form of somepony you love and gains power by feeding off your love for them!"

Cadance narrowed her eyes at her. Oh well, so much for Plan C. It was about time for the next phase soon anyway. She would just need to step up the schedule. On to Plan D. Cadance became surrounded with magical green fire, eventually engulfing her whole body. She transformed right before their very eyes, emerging as a black, carapace encased insect. Her voice shifted into a demonic cackle. Celestia chose this moment to slink away. Thank goodness somepony else took the spotlight off her. She'd needed to go take a leak for some time now.

"Ha ha ha ha! Right you are princess. And as Queen of the Changelings, it is up to me to find food for my subjects. Equestria has more love than any place I've ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it that we will gain more power than we have ever dreamed of!"

"They'll never get the chance!" Cadence spat back. "Shining Armor's protection spell will keep them from ever even reaching us!"

"Hmm hmm hmm. Oh I doubt that. Isn't that right dear?" Chrysalis said, looking back at the entranced stallion.

"Mmm hmm." He nodded absently, eyes aglow with an empty green aura. Cadence tried to make a run for him.

"Uh uh ah! Don't want to go back to the cave now do you?" Chrysalis cackled. Cadence yielded. "Ever since I took your place, I've been feeding off Shining Armor's love for you. Every moment, he grows weaker, and so does his spell. Even now my minions are chipping away at it. Muah ha ha ha ha! He may not be my husband, but he is under my total control now. And I'm sorry to say, unable to perform his duties as Captain of the royal guard!"

"Not my Shining Armor!" Cadence cried out.

"Soon my changeling army will break through. First we take Canterlot, then ALL OF EQUESTRIA!"

FLUSH Princess Celestia washed her hooves clean. She looked back out into the Great Hall. It looked like the big bug was done with her big villain monologue, and shit was about to get real.

"NO! You wont!" Celestia stepped forward and challenged. She'd taken a gamble giving Shining Armor the bulk of her power. And now that decision was coming back to bite her. Especially if this changeling had been feeding off him this whole time. But she still had her subjects to protect. "You may have made it impossible for Shining Armor to perform his spell. But now that you have so foolishly revealed your true self, I can protect my subjects," She leaped high into the air, her wings flaring wide, "from YOU!" She knew this was a bad idea. She knew she didn't have the strength for this. She charged up every last ounce of energy she had.

Her long life flashed before her eyes
For all her power
For all her wisdom
She could not foresee
Her own demise

'We've all got to go some time.' She thought to herself as she watched the green counterattack from the Changeling Queen push back her weakened solar beam. When it reached her horn, her world went black. She felt the power under her hooves fail her. She could no longer hear the whispers of the Ley Lines of the earth. She could no longer feel the cosmic power of the Sun. She felt weightless, nothingness.

So this is what death was like?

After what felt like falling for eternity, she was greeted unceremoniously by the hard tile floor, sparking her consciousness awake just enough to let her brain know that her body was in agonizing pain. 'Thank you brain. Thank you for making sure I was awake to feel this.' She cursed inwardly. At least her little detour to the filly's room would keep her from soiling herself in front of everypony.

"AH! Princess Celestia!" Twilight cried out, rushing to her side.

"Ah, Shining Armor's love for you is even stronger than I thought! Consuming it has made me even more powerful than Celestia!" She bellowed triumphantly. The final X factor of her plan had been eliminated. There could be no stopping her now!

"The Elements of Harmony, you must get to them, and use their power to defeat the Queen!" Celestia commanded with her last ounce of consciousness. She'd only ever asked for one thing from this life of hers. That her death be for something. Not of something. She closed her eyes, perhaps, for the last time.

Twilight nodded to the others. This meant only one thing.

NAKED TIME!

Shining's glazed eyes could not appreciate the show in front of him. She and the others stripped off their dresses, throwing them carelessly into the air. Well, almost all of them. Rarity tried her best to keep her work from getting soiled on the floor.

"Rarity!" The others called. She hesitated for a moment. She knew what was coming. It was going to be a bloody battle, with the very fate of Equestria at stake! And if there was going to be blood, she was going to battle... in the nude!

What? Have you ever tried to get a blood stain out? It is not easy.

The six bearers of the elements vanished from the room. Chrysalis yelled after them, "Muah ha ha! You can run, but you can't hide!" She relaxed a moment. With the X factor out of the way, she felt assured of her own success. 'Now... what to do with the first spoil of war?' She wondered, as she circled the unconscious form of the 'great' Princess Celestia. The sound of the Force Field shattering at last signaled the final stage of her tactical plan. Several changeling drones flew through the broken windows. She motioned to the alabaster alicorn, unconscious on the floor. "Process her!" She ordered. The drones set to work on the once-glorious Princess. Soon she would be naught but food for the hive.

Some time passed. The Queen was actually quite impressed with how long the Elements managed to hold their ground. But there were none who could repel The Horde forever. In time they would be brought back to her custody, their efforts fruitless of their prize.

By the time Princess Celestia came to, she wasn't even sure if she was alive. Everything around her had a green tint and... upside down? It was then she realized that she was hanging from the ceiling in some kind of... cocoon! She tried to call to her magic, but it failed her. Whatever this medium she was in, it simultaneously kept her alive and incapacitated.

Princess Cadence would be next. In the mean time, her hooves were bound to the floor with changeling goo, effectively grounding her magic as well. She was trapped where she stood. But she yet had hope. Chrysalis chuckled at the notion.

Hope.
The quintessential pony delusion.
Simultaneously the source of their greatest strength
AND
their greatest weakness.

"You wont get away with this!" Cadence shouted from her cemented position. "Twilight and her friends will-"

The doors to the hall opened as the six elements were lead, escorted and otherwise carried back to the queen.

"You were saying?" Queen Chrysalis asked smugly. She turned to the six would-be usurpers. "You do realize the reception's been cancelled don't you?" She ordered the remainder of the changeling drones in the room. "Go! FEED!" The rest of the drones flew out into the city of terrorized citizens to get their share. "It's funny really. Twilight, here, was suspicious of my behavior all along." The queen mocked, lifting the purple unicorn's chin before the mare smacked her black limb away defiantly. "Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct! Ha HA!"

"We're sorry Twilight. We should have listened to you." Applejack apologized.

"It's not your fault. She fooled everypony." Twilight said.

"Hmm, I did, didn't I?" Chrysalis cooed, strutting over to the window to soak in the glorious victory she had wrought.

"This day has been just perfect.
The kind of day of which I'd dreamed since I was small.
Every pony I'll soon control,
every stallion, mare, and foal.
Who says a girl can't really have it all?"

Twilight took the Queen's moment of lyrical gloating to free Cadence of her slimy changeling restraints. "Quick, go to him while you still have a chance!" She whispered. Twilight decided that if she and her brother were to meet their end this day, he deserved to be with the one he loved... even if it wasn't her.

Cadence ran over to him. His dull, empty eyes stared out into the room past her. She hugged him tightly. "I hope you remember who you were." She silently prayed as she embraced him. Her prayer manifested from her horn, penetrating the cheap trance the queen held him in, shaking him awake.

"H- huh? Uh? Is the wedding over?" He asked groggily. Cadence and Twilight both sighed a breath of relief to see the Shining they remember still among them in the realm of the living. Having taken notice, a tall, black carapace flew over to break up the happy tidings.

"It's ALL OVER!" She gloated.

"Your spell! Perform your spell!" Twilight shouted while her brother had a spare moment to hear and understand her words.

"Muah ha ha ha! What good would that do?" Chrysalis cackled. "My changelings already roam free!" She boasted. It was true. The city was overrun, flooded with the insect beings, terrorizing the citizens.

"No!" Shining gasped, as he focused on the spell, trying for the scale of the city. But his strength failed him. The boon of power that Princess Celestia granted him had worn off, or had been drained by the Queen! "My power is useless now! I don't have the strength to repel them!"

"My love will give you strength!" Cadence said, holding Shining close.

"Muah ha ha! What a lovely, but absolutely ridiculous sentiment!" The Queen spat, watching from the window as her assured victory unfolded outside.

Cadence looked into Shining's eyes. They both understood in that moment what must be done. He focused on his spell once more. He'd done this before, engulfed the entire city in a force field. Now he needed to make a small one, and stretch it to the size of a city, pushing out all of the enemies. It was there, crystallized in his mind. The plan, the means. He needed only the fuel. Cadence touched her horn to his, feeding his strength with the reserves of an alicorn possessed.

She was his.
She would give all for him.
Even if it meant her life.

He gave his all.
He cast the spell.
They saved the city.

The changeling empire, and all evidence of their brief occupation, was expelled from the city, propelled to parts unknown. As she was catapulted through the air to the horizon, she silently apologized to her changelings, flung helplessly around her. They had done their part in her scheme admirably. And for that she commended them. But this failure would not be hers. In a flash, she vanished from the sky, abandoning her minions.
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“My love will give you strength.”

That was what she said. Celestia sure didn't love him the way he knew Cadence did. But he knew what he felt. Cadence gave him a boon of her alicorn power, giving him the strength to repel the changeling invaders, and save the city.

All evidence of the invasion had been swept away in a brilliant, violet blast. Naught left but the memories of the day’s events. Celestia had recovered from her assault and subsequent imprisonment. Shining, for his part, seemed to not be suffering any more ill effects from the queen. His lieutenants were already scrambling to reassemble the wedding party and the seating for the hall. But it would still be a couple hours yet until the wedding could be restarted.

The officers disseminated the word to the enlisted guards in and around the palace to spread the all-clear message to the city to assuage any residual panic. Order would be restored and maintained. Inside, Cadence tended to Shining Armor. He had expended all the energy that she had bestowed onto him, leaving no residual power to give him a headache this time. Twilight and her friends stood by patiently as the flurry of activity around them moved with calculated automation setting everything back to the way it was. Cadence still looked a fright from her ordeal in the caves. And she was starving from the time in the caves to boot.

“I need to eat something, get cleaned up and get dressed. I’ll meet you back here soon for the wedding. I love you.” She kissed her fiancé, before excusing herself from the chapel hall. Twilight realized that she too was without her best mare dress. Her friends, whom had shed the cumbersome garments when they went to battle, had begun to recover their articles. Twilight’s task was made easy. After the others had gathered up their items, hers were all that were left. She collected her things, noting that Shining was also leaving to fix himself up. In just a couple short hours, he would be a married stallion. He vanished around the corner of the hallway to his guest bedroom.

It was now or never.

Shining sat down in front of his dresser. He looked like a mess. He was in no condition to get married. In fact, he almost had half a mind to call the whole thing- er, postpone to a better date for everypony. He had so much on his mind. He just needed to close his eyes for a second.

FLASH

Shining nearly fell out of his seat at the burst of noise behind him. His adrenalin kick-started his energy, springing him wide awake, on full alert. He took a defensive posture.

“Hey.”

“Hey.” He said back to the purple unicorn, relaxing somewhat.

“Listen, I, uh, I need to talk to you.” She started.

“No, it’s okay. I know.” He cut in, surprising her. “I’m sorry about earlier. I should have listened to you, we all should have. I mean, I know I was under that… spell-” He said, trying to find the word for whatever it was that the queen had done to him. “But the others should have at least believed you.”

“No. That’s not what I mean. And it wasn't your fault. She fooled all of us.” Twilight said, trying to regain her original train of thought. She set her dress on the spare seat. “I needed to talk to you about us. I've been meaning to tell you but, well, things came up.” She motioned to the castle, and all the crazy stuff that happened in the last few days. “It’s just that I've always sort of secretly had feel-"

KNOCK KNOCK

“Captain, I just wanted to-” Celestia said, pushing the door open and poking her head into the room. “Oh, Twilight. What are you doing here?”

“Oh, I was just checking up on Shining and making sure he was okay.” Twilight said.

“Oh alright. Well then I guess you’re already in good hooves then.” She smiled and closed the door.

“I told you, I’m fine now.” He told Twilight.

“I know that.” She said.

“Then why did you say-”

“Shh,” She hushed him, putting her hoof to his lips. He stilled his words, waiting for her to speak. She slipped her hoof from his lips to his hoof. They just sat there for a moment in silence, staring at each other. Twilight leaned closer, moving too imperceptibly slow for Shining to notice at but only the unconscious level. She read him. She read his face. Her hoof felt his pulse accelerate. She watched his pupils dilate. His rate of breath increased.

It was not adrenaline from the scare.
It was not fear from the battle earlier.
It was excitement. Anticipation. Longing.

“Shining?”

“Twilight.” He responded. She swallowed hard. But her mouth was dry. She took a sharp breath.

“A kiss for good luck?” She offered. He nodded just slightly. They closed their eyes as she leaned in. He brought his head closer to her, closing the distance. They kissed.

They kissed.

She kissed him. He kissed her back. Soon he would be married. She kissed him as long as she would be able to get away with. He kissed her as long as he could get away with. He felt her trembling against him. He opened his eyes. Silent tears ran down her cheeks. Twilight was crying. He stopped, pulling away. He put his hooves over his face in shame.

What had he done? He had ruined his relationship with his sister forever for his own selfish desires. On today, his wedding of all days! And now his act had left her in tears. He couldn't even bear to look at her. He felt so ashamed.

What had she done? She had ruined her relationship with her brother forever for her own selfish desires. And on today, his wedding of all days. Look at him now. He was so disgusted with her he couldn’t even bear the sight of her. She felt so ashamed.

“I’m sorry!”
“I’m sorry!”

They said together in stereo. She wiped her cheeks quickly, trying to think of something, anything to break the ensuing silence.

Shining’s heart was pounding in his ears. He glanced at her from the corner of his eye. He’d rather be staring down a Cockatrice then see the look on her face as she stared at her perverse brother.

as she stared at him

stared at him

What was she staring at? What was she waiting for? He summoned all his will to look at her. It was torturous. She deserved an answer. She deserved to know the truth. She deserved him being honest to her for once. No more lying. No more secrets. He had never told her anything. He’d kept his relationship with Cadence a secret from everypony. But her, the longest. Her, the one who looked after him the most when he needed it. The one who very well may have saved his life today. In the face of the queen deceiving everypony, to lie to her now would be salt in a wound. No more.

“Twi, I-”
“Shine, I-” They each tried to start. She tried to speak, tried to tell him what he must surely suspect of her. It must be so obvious to him. He looked so- no, not angry. Not disgusted. She looked past him to the mirror behind him on the dresser. His expression mirrored her own. Shame.

He looked ashamed. Why would he-

Twilight felt like the air suddenly rushed into the room as the biggest, brightest, most obvious light had finally just turned on. She had been staring at two plus two on the chalkboard for so long, she didn't even recognize the numbers anymore. But it was all so clear to her now.

But her realization didn't address the yet-enormous elephant in the room.

“Shining?” She squeaked. Her voice was barely a cracked whisper. “Are you attracted to me?”

He cringed, as though the accusation had struck him in the face like a whip. He readied himself for the blow. It was Shining’s turn to cry. A single tear escaped his clenched eyes as he nodded nervously, waiting to be struck, beaten, for the bad pony that he surely was. Her hoof hit his face. No, it touched his face. Her hoof was touching his face. Why was she touching his face? He peeked at her, opening his eyelids. She wasn't angry. She caressed his cheek.

“It’s okay. Shining, I love you.”

“You’re… you’re not, I mean, you don’t think I’m, you know... weird?”

“Only if you don’t think I’m weird too.” She said, smiling slightly. “I love you, Shining Armor.”

“You? I mean- you mean?” He stuttered again, still unable to comprehend the turn of events. She just nodded. “I- I love you too.” He said back. It felt so good to say that at last. “I love you Twilight!” He nearly knocked her out of her chair as he hugged her tightly.

It was not an erotic embrace. There was no passion in the act, no lust. Only genuine, loving, intimacy. The hug of a long lost friend or relative, not seen in years. Two siblings, who knew each other their whole lives, but feeling like only just now, did they finally meet at last. They had finally found each other, and, to a degree, themselves, in each other’s hooves.

He kissed her. She kissed him back. It was NOT a familial kiss. He felt her tongue on his lips, his mouth opened and he greeted hers with his own. He felt her hoof on his shoulder. He stopped, as though she was going to push him away. He felt her wrap her hoof around the nape of his neck, running it through his tussled mane, pulling him closer. He resumed kissing her. His cheeks felt wet. Her tears on him. His tears joining hers. He was crying too. He understood now. They were each tears of joy. He held her tight, for fear of losing her again, somehow. She finally paused to come up for air.

"But, how?" He asked. She tilted her head in confusion. "I mean, I thought Princess Celestia, you know, made you forget."

"How did you-?"

"I kinda, read your diary." He admitted. Twilight's face looked mortified.

"Oh my gosh!" She gasped. "So you know about..."

"Yeah, all that." He answered.

"But if you knew this whole time, why didn't you, say something?"

"Well, I didn't know what to feel at first. I was shocked at first, and confused. Then when I started feeling the same way, I felt ashamed of myself. But mostly, I was just... scared." He admitted. "But what about you and what the Princess did?" He asked.

"Well, when Discord changed my friends, I had to use a memory restoration spell to save them and defeat him. I didn't think until later to use it on myself. I figured, if he had messed with my memory, I certainly wouldn't remember it obviously. So I did." She ran her hoof through his mane. "You can imagine my surprise when all of... this came flooding back." Her eyes wandered slowly over the details of his face, as though finally seeing the real him after all this time, in a new light.

"But there was always something..." Twilight continued to explain, "Something deep down that even the Princess couldn't touch. Some- feeling that never went away. A- I don't know, a craving. But I didn't understand it until after I remembered." She looked down at her hooves. "I never dreamed that you would feel the same way after all this time. But when we kissed on Hearts and Hooves day it just, I don't know, felt so... so..."

"Right." He finished.

"Imagine my surprise when I find out that you're getting married out of the damn blue! I didn't even know you were dating!" She looked at him a bit hurt.

"We kept it a secret from everypony. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner." He apologized. "And in person. You deserved as much."

"So, that's why I'm here. I had to find out once and for all before it was too late. Before you had your wedding." She lost another tear. There was no joy in it.

"Oh no! The wedding!" He looked at the clock on the wall. It would be starting in an hour. He got up to start getting ready.

"Shining please!" She blocked his path. "Let me have you." She pushed him onto the bed. "This one time. Before I lose you." Her breath grew ragged.

"I- I can't! We can't! I'm about to get married!" He tried.

"But you're not married yet." She whispered as she started to nibble on his ear, running her hoof down his belly. His reaction was immediate. He wanted her. By the elements! He wanted her so bad!

"I- I mean, we shouldn't!" He pleaded. The last scraps of willpower wouldn't last much longer like this.

"Why not? We're both consenting adults." She climbed on top of him, straddling his rigid member. Stars and stones, she was soaking wet, as her marehood slid along the side of his shaft, pinned against his belly between them. "Isn't that what you always told me? That last night I slept in your bed? You remember. 'I'm a full grown mare now.'" She echoed his words from years ago.

Her words brought the vivid memories of that night flooding back. The countless nights since then when he clopped furiously to that very memory. The occasional times he was with Cadence, closing his eyes and pretending for a moment, that she was the very unicorn he had been lusting over in depraved secret. The unicorn who was at this very moment getting his steel rod slick with her arousal.

"Look at me now brother. I'm all grown up." She whispered. He throbbed under her, swelling another inch. It was the most intense erection of his life. It was painfully hard. She leaned in close, sliding to the base of his shaft, soaking his swollen balls in her wetness. She held his face in her hooves and kissed him again. He wrapped his hooves around her, hugging her tight against him. He felt her grinding against his crotch, her little love nub flicking against his veiny ridges. She moaned into his mouth. She continued to buck against him, her fits and starts growing more erratic until she went rigid and motionless. She exhaled after a moment. Her eyes looked at him from on top, full of lust.

"Did you just-"

"Hmm, not yet." She purred in a lithe tone. "Working up to it." She lifted herself from him, and turned around on top of him, careful to avoid any contact that would push her over the top. She wanted to hold this plateau of pleasure with him as long as possible before the peak. She looked down at her brother's wonderful penis. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, she decided. It was even better than she remembered. She held it up in her hooves, gently stroking it. Feeling its every texture and detail, committing it all to memory. She couldn't fathom how she had ever wanted the Princess to make her forget these feelings. She never wanted to forget this moment. The sight, the feeling, the smell of his strong, masculine musk.

She put her tongue to his tip, licking the droplet of precum forming there. The taste! It was even better than she had imagined. She leaned down, running her tongue along the sides of his length. She felt his hot breath on her nethers as he moaned out. It was music to her ears. She kissed around his flared tip as she wiggled her rump at him.

Shining was nearly paralyzed. His every sense was in overload. Of all the wild and kinky things he'd done in the past, none stole the very air from his lungs as this experience was doing. He felt her mouth on his shaft, working the head with practiced motions. She'd been training for this moment with the 'study aid' she'd gotten from The Crop on her birthday. Her tail was raised high. His entire field of vision was consumed with her beautiful marehood, mere inches from his nose. He was struck temporarily catatonic, frozen in abject awe of the sight. And the aroma! Her arousal positively radiated off of her delicate flower. He could feel her warmth on his face already.

She wiggled her rump at him, causing her pussy lips to purse reflexively, winking at him invitingly. It was all the coaxing he needed to shake him from his daze. He placed his hooves on her supple flanks, pulling her down to his face. He made first contact as the tip of his snout brushed against her swollen clit, causing her to buck in surprise. But he held fast, keeping her from wiggling free of his grasp. He brought his face to her again, this time, pursing his lips against hers. He could hear her gasping as he started to return her oral ministrations.

He brought his broad tongue to the base of her slit, lapping a wide swath up to her dripping love tunnel. He repeated the motion a few times before flexing his tongue rigid to probe her hot depths. Her nethers were on fire, her heat against his face was palpable. He could feel himself sweating.

Twilight returned the engagement, trying to not let his pleasuring distract her from the task at hoof in front of her. In a practiced motion, she took the whole of his head into her mouth until it reached the back of her throat, causing her to gag slightly. She'd worked hard on taming her reflex, but her toy was a gross underestimation for the size of his real thing. But she would not be deterred. She started slowly bobbing her head, causing him to stumble in his pace on her pussy. With the momentary advantage, she used the distraction-free opportunity to really get him going, quickening her pace.

Shining's mind was reeling. He tried his best to focus despite his whole body feeling electrified from the sensations he was receiving from his sister sucking him off with wild abandon. He mounted a counterattack on her pussy, this time focusing on her clitoris, licking, kissing, sucking, yet taking care to not over-stimulate her to discomfort. Her fluids ran with increased measure. He could feel himself getting close. He was surprised he'd lasted as long as he had. He felt her moaning onto him in her mouth. The vibration was nearly too much. It grew into a muffled scream as he gave her nub a final assault. Her legs clamped onto his head as her pussy gushed forth her climax. Thank goodness her mouth was full or else the whole castle would have probably heard her. Her flavor flooded his mouth in vast quantity. He greedily swallowed what he could, the rest plastering his fur wet against his face.

Her muffled cry of ecstasy on his cock reached a fever pitch. He felt his balls tighten as he reached the point of no return. She felt him begin to swell in her mouth. She took a quick, deep breath before diving forward, impaling her throat around his pulsating shaft, not stopping until her nose pushed into his flexing scrotum.

Neither of them heard the knock at the locked door.

"I'm cumming!" Shining called out.

The response proved satisfactory to whomever had come by to inform him of the time.

The last light in Shining's mind blew out as he felt his sister swallow his entire length. His head mushroomed in her throat as he erupted his seed into her. She felt her esophagus stretch from him swelling, crushing her airway. She felt the spasm of a cough, trapped in her lungs, and painfully forcing tears from her eyes. But she refused to yield. She had waited for this moment for too long to quit now. She willed herself to swallow every drop as he continued to ejaculate what felt like quarts of semen into her distended stomach.

Shining's eyes decided to see what his brain looked like as they rolled into the back of his head in ecstatic bliss. The swallowing muscles of her throat were milking him of every last drop. He blasted a fifth, voluminous rope of semen into her. By the time his eighth throb passed, it was little more than a dribble.

To her relief, Twilight felt her brother begin to shrink, and retreat from her mouth. She flopped off to the side of him, coughing and gasping. Shining wiped his sister's marecum from his eyes and squinted at the clock on the wall. The ceremony would begin in less than half an hour.

"Oh horse apples!" He yelled, leaping from the bed. He hopped in the shower for a quick rinse to get the smell of sex off him. He heard the door to the bathroom creak open.

"Room for one more?" She asked.

"No, we can't. The ceremony is in less than half an hour. We need to get washed and dressed!" He said.

"I agree." She said, slipping inside the curtain with him.

"What are you-?"

"Oh, just relax and pass me the shampoo. You're not the only one who smells like sex." She said, lathering her mane. Shining tried his best to behave, despite the incredibly arousing view of his sister's wet mane plastered against her slick fur. His military training ran on autopilot as he quickly washed himself as fast as possible. Not intentionally teasing, Twilight couldn't help but brush against him in the cramped quarters of the shower stall. Thankfully his recent release kept little shiny at bay. The siblings bathed quickly without further incestuous incident. After, the pair quickly dried off and re-dressed in their respective wedding attire.

"I still can't believe we did that." Shining said, quickly buttoning his shirt.

"Do you regret it?" She asked.

"No! No, of course not." He said with sudden seriousness. "I just- I just wish we had known sooner. I mean I did, but it seemed like you didn't want to feel that way in your diary." She gave him a bit of a glare. "Yeah yeah, I know I shouldn't have read it, but it all turned out okay, right?" He asked. She looked away, a bit crestfallen. "Why? What's wrong?"

"It's just- still, you're getting married." She stifled a sniffle. "It's like Cadet School all over. It's like I'm losing you again." She whimpered. He moved to her side, taking her chin in his hoof.

"Hey, you're my little sister. Of course you're important to me." He sighed. "We'll work this out somehow." He kissed her on the cheek. "I love you."

"But, if you're married, we can't keep- I mean it would be wrong." She said.

Shining looked at the drying stains on the sheets where he had just shared passionate incestuous oral sex with his sister a few minutes ago.

"I... think we're a bit past the point of social mores." Shining said with a slight smile. "And you're definitely not going to lose me." He kissed her again, this time on the lips. "I promise." He said as they finished dressing.
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After the panic of the day's event had subsided, there was a wedding to resume. Celestia stood at the head of the hall once more, filled again, with the citizens of Canterlot. She admired the resiliency of her citizens.

But then again, after being doomed to eternal darkness, suffocating from a century of dragon smog, annihilation by parasprites, eternal chaos, hypnotic dolls, greedy rampaging dragons, Windigos, time-travel paradox disasters, pegasi tornadoes and changeling invasions, she realized that what might have been a seismic event a decade ago would barely pass as a blip for these disaster-hardened citizens these days.

She wasn't sure how to feel about that.

Shining Armor's uniform was still a bit disheveled from his lovemaking with his sister earlier. Twilight stood proudly beside her brother, adjusting his uniform to look perfect for his perfect day. Okay, maybe that was aiming a little high. For his special day then. But then, Twilight thought about how the queen had more or less mind-raped him for the bulk of it.

Twilight stood proudly beside her brother, adjusting his uniform to look perfect for his... day. Their parents looked on in the front row. Her mom, Twilight Velvet, wiped a tear of joy from her eye. Celestia gave the cue to Fluttershy. She began to instruct her bird choir as they sang 'Here Comes the Bride'. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo lead the way, spreading flower petals as they went. Behind them, the genuine Cadence followed. Her beauty was absolutely radiant. Everypony in attendance could not help but wonder how they could have ever mistaken some other cheap facsimile for the genuine article before them.

Twilight nudged her brother, "Seriously though, I can understand why the Queen of the Changelings wanted to be with you, but how did you get somepony as amazing as Cadence to marry you?"

"I told her she wouldn't just be gaining a husband, she'd be getting a pretty great sister too." He answered. Twilight tried her best to hide her blush at the remark.

"Mares and gentlecolts," Princess Celestia repeated again for the day, "we are gathered here today to celebrate the union of the real Princess Mi Amore Cadenza-"

"Princess Cadence is fine." The bride said to her.

"... the union of Princess Cadence and Shining Armor. The strength of their commitment is clear. The power of their love undeniable. May we have the rings please?" Spike stepped forward, presenting them. Celestia took them with her magic, placing them on the horns of each of the spouses. "I now pronounce you, mare and colt." She finished as the newlyweds stepped out onto the balcony to the roaring applause of the Canterlot citizens flooding the streets below.

Twilight watched her brother and his new wife greet the crowd down below the balcony. She had been right all along. There was something wrong, something off about that other Cadance. But what had been the root of that doubt? What was it that had driven her to so quickly turn on her once beloved foalsitter? She had been so happy when she had first found out that Shining was getting married to her. Hadn't she?

Was it just her gut instinct that had told her that there was something off about the pink alicorn she once knew? Or was it something deeper? She had so many questions that had been left unanswered, so many questions to ask of her, of him and of herself. The sun was heading to the west in the late afternoon. Her brother was married. Her eyes teared up.

She wasn't sure if they were happy tears this time

As the newly wed couple kissed, a rainbow exploded in the sky, causing Shining to nearly bite his tongue and hers too. A few of the groom's colts hit the deck. "Incoming mortar!" One yelled out.

Shining looked to the sky. He had dove to the floor, pulling Cadence with him. He watched the Pegasus streaking across the sky with a prismatic trail. Cadence wiggled herself free from his hooves.

"Shining, please. Let's at least wait for the honeymoon!" She said with a smirk.
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Later that evening at the reception, the sun had set, leaving a faint light on the horizon. The lanterns around the courtyard lit the dance floor where the couple shared their first dance. The moon would be rising shortly. But first, its controller had a party to attend.

"Hello everypony. Did I miss anything?" Luna asked nonchalantly.

Before her elder sister could respond with: 'How about an entire city-wide invasion?!' Pinkie Pie activated the DJ booth, complete with the famous DJ, Vinyl Scratch herself.

"Let's get this party started!" The pink party pony yelled, throwing the microphone to Twilight.

"Love is in bloom!" Twilight began singing.

As the party got underway properly, Celestia slowly stalked, circling her prize. She had only allowed Shining Armor to wed her niece on such short notice for promise of what she would finally get tonight. In the face of a city-wide occupation, she would not let the ceremony be delayed another day. She had waited for this opportunity for too long already.

Certainly, she could have it made, fabricated, but it wouldn't be the same. It had to be genuine. It had to be real! Not just any wedding would do. But a Royal Wedding. She checked out of the corner of her eye. Photo Finish was busy taking wedding pictures of everypony else but her, just as instructed. A nice, incriminating photo of Pinkie Pie devouring cake. Applejack playing the fiddle. Spike dancing with a minor. Rainbow Dash hitting on a Wonderbolt. Rarity flirting with married Canterlot elite.

The Princess's revenge on the Foal Free Press would soon be complete. All eyes were on the bride and groom. There was nopony to stop her now. She moved in for the kill.

The wedding cake.

A ROYAL wedding cake. She voraciously grabbed a hoof-full of victory, and it tasted delicious.

After, Twilight escorted the couple to their stagecoach, opening the door for them. Cadence stepped inside, Shining waited a moment.

"Twilight! None of this would have been possible without you little sis. Love you, Twilie."

"Love you too B.B.B.F.F." She said, hugging him close. Shining whispered in her ear.

"I'll see you again soon. Promise."

Inside, Shining turned to his new wife.

"Ready to go?"

"Oh. Almost forgot!" Cadence said, leaning out the window, throwing the bouquet.
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Celestia approached her younger sister.

"Well, that was certainly one of the most 'interesting' weddings I've ever attended. It's too bad you missed most of it." She said.

"I was too busy helping to plan the honeymoon. A lovely mountain chateau with one of the most romantic views of Equestria. Can you imagine the looks on their faces? The waterfalls, the birds. One of the most sought after vacation spots in Equestria! After everything they've been through. Finally together at last."

"You know, that's probably the last thing on their minds, right?" Celestia asked.

"Oh, I know." Luna answered with a knowing grin. They both giggled, knowing exactly what the newlyweds would be doing on their Honeymoon Night.