Celestia was slow to rise the next morning, feeling worn out from what she and Luna had done the night previous. She lifted herself up, looking down at Luna with a smile on her face, till the weight of what had just happened washed over her like an angry tide. She had just slept with Luna…again, on the night before she was supposed go on her first date with Twilight, and she felt no amount of shame for what she had done.

Sure she should probably feel something akin to shame, after all she was supposed to be trying to court Twilight, but she could not deny a certain fact that had cropped up during the night, for she still was in love with Luna.

“How did it come to this…” she asked aloud, before moving down to gently nuzzle Luna awake. “Lulu, it’s time to get up, we have to go talk to Twilight.”

Luna grumbled a bit, but slowly rose as well, nuzzling her Celestia back as she spoke. “Tia…do we really have to go through with this…last night…”

Celestia kissed her into silence, “Lulu you don’t need to fear, last night was special to me as well, it…it revealed many things I had long ago banished from my mind, feelings I had for you that I should never have given up on.”

She saw the hopeful look enter Luna’s eyes, but she knew she needed to finish with what she was saying, so she continued. “But…I want Twilight to share in this love we have, so I thought…if you are ok with it, we could both date her together.”

“Together?” asked Luna, looking puzzled before it finally dawned on her. Celestia had always liked herds; Celestia was just too darn loving and needy to be stuck to just one pony, especially when one pony was never enough to satisfy her, even if it was Luna.

Plus there was the big fact that she loved Twilight just as much as she did Celestia, and while the idea of forming a herd had originally not appealed to her, she now could see the appeal of such a herd.

“Ok,” she said, snuggling up close to Celestia with a smile on her face, “we will date her, together.”

“Then we best get going, we don’t want to be late for breakfast now do we.”

The sound of giggling could be heard when the two princesses reached the dining hall, and when they entered it was to find both Princess Twilight and Cadance snuggled up close to each other, feeding each other and occasionally exchanging a kiss or two.

“I assume the date went well sister?” asked Celestia with an evil grin, causing Cadance to choke on her food and give her a look.

“Tia, I…you…”

Celestia just chuckled, “what, I can’t call you sister, I mean I assume you told our intended right.”

Cadance just blushed, though luckily she was saved by Twilight, “yes, she told me about how she was adopted by Faust.”

Twilight then got up, walking over to Celestia and giving her a quick nuzzle, surprising her with her boldness. Then she looked up into the solar deities eyes, smiling up at her as she spoke, “I hope you’re ready for today Celestia, I admit I might have been worried about this, but I have to admit, I have really been looking forward today.”

“Actually Twilight, there is something I need to talk to you about concerning our…our impending date.”

“What do you mean,” asked Twilight, a look of concern crossing her face as she looked at Celestia.

“Well Twilight you see…” started Celestia, only to have the words catch in her throat and stay there, causing Luna to have to speak up for her.

“Celestia and I slept together last night, as in romantically slept together.”

Cadance nearly choked on her tea, coughing and spluttering as she tried to regain control of her breathing, but Celestia had only eyes for Twilight, whose face had become a total blank as what Luna had said washed over her. She felt hurt, she felt betrayed…but most of all she felt disgusted by what she had just heard, and so she decided to focus on that one first, figuring it would clear up all the other issues. “You…you mean to tell me that last night, while I was making love to Cadance, you went and had sex with your sister!”

“She is not my sister,” said Celestia, causing Twilight to look at her in confusion.

“Bwu…?”

Celestia sighed, “Twilight, Luna and I were adopted by Faust as well, and we were mere mortals just like you before we became alicorns, but until she adopted us we were not related, we were just good friends.”

“Not just good friends Tia,” said Luna with a smile, moving up close and wrapping a wing around Celestia as she continued. “We eventually became lovers, and it seems those feelings have had a chance to resurface of late.”

“But why,” asked Twilight, “you both said you loved me, why would you do this to me?”

“we still do love you Twilight,” said Celestia, “which is why I wish to ask you, if it is alright of course, if Luna can come along for our dates as well, for we both wish to court you together, rather than apart.”

Twilight stared at her a long moment, then looked to Luna, who simply nodded, confirming what her Celestia had told her. She thought it over in her head, and while the fact that Celestia and Luna now wanted to date her together was a bit strange, she had to admit the idea wasn’t so fare fetched, especially seeing as how she had been planning to date them all at the same time after dating them separately.

She finally nodded, gesturing over to Luna and then hugging them both as they drew close, smiling a bit as she spoke. “Ok, I’ll date you both, just…just go slow ok, I still have to get used to this.”

The both nodded, and then they parted, Luna smiling as she looked at them both. “You ready to get going Twilight?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be,” said Twilight with a grin, “where are we going?”

“Tis a surprise,” said Luna, winking at Celestia and causing her to shake her head, grumbling as she got ready beside her.

“Now stay close you two,” said Luna, “and Cadance,” she said, turning back to the younger alicorn as she spoke.

“Yeah sis,” said Cadance, not bothering to cover up the fact that they were sisters.

“Enjoy yourself ok, we will most likely be gone the whole night,” said Luna, before teleporting away as Cadance smiled, getting up to head back to her room and rest, figuring she had earned it.

“Twilight, you can open your eyes now.”

Twilight did, and as they opened she gasped, for she found herself on the surface of a foreign world, the sky opening up into the darkness of space and the light form the planet Equis shinning down upon them.

“Welcome to Lunaria my Twilight,” said Luna with a grin.

“Wow,” said Twilight, her gaze enraptured by the beauty of the place. She had known for a long time that the moons appearance was in fact an illusion, created to protect the absolute paradise where the night guard were born.

And what a paradise it was, from lush plant and wildlife to sparkling crystal clear lakes, the entirety of the lunar surface was at the peak of natural perfection.

“I always loved it here,” said Celestia, “I was very saddened when I had to turn it into a prison for my dear sister, but like her, it too had become something dark and foreboding, becoming a hostile land not fit to live in.”

Luna nodded, “but now it is a paradise again, which is why I thought it would be a lovely spot for our first date, for I figured you would enjoy a bit of history before dinner.”

Twilight nodded, and then they began walking, Celestia starting up conversion as they made their way. “As you know Twilight, this place did not exist till a time after we had overthrown discord from his seat of power, though not many ponies actually know the truth behind its creation.”

“Well from what I remember,” said Twilight, “it was said that Luna created this place so she could have a place for solitude, and only later did she find out that the thestrals already lived there, and they became her night guard as repayment for reshaping their homeland into the paradise it is today.”

Celestia nodded, “correct, though the truth is actually far different than what I put into the history books. You see Twilight, after we defeated Discord; it took many years for ponies to recover from what had been done to them, most of them fearing that we might end up doing the same if they were not carful. So Luna decided that she would create a new colony; hoping that it would become a beacon of hope for our little ponies.”

“Sadly,” stated Luna, “my sister forbade me from doing so, for she feared that if I did so it would divide out nation, making it impossible for us to recover. But I would not listen, so one night while the moon was full; I put the castle guard and my sister to sleep with a mighty spell, and then left the palace and made my way through the cities and villages, taking only the orphaned and abandoned foals to create the colony, taking them away in the night and taking them to the moon.”

Celestia nodded, “when I heard, I became enraged, teleporting myself to the moon. But when I arrived, I found that the ponies Luna had taken were doing better than I could ever have imagined, and when I told the populace this, they turned out to be overjoyed.”

Twilight nodded, sitting down with them on a particularly nice hill, and then gasping a bit as both the princesses leaned themselves against her, Luna taking in a deep breath of her sent.

“Wait a moment?” said Twilight, “if there were no ponies till you brought the orphans there, where the hell did the thestrals come from?”

Luna laughed, nuzzling into Twilight’s coat a bit and causing her to blush, before finally speaking again. “Well my dear Twilight, the thestrals evolved from the ponies I brought to the moon, for they are there descendants.”

Twilight looked quizzically at her, causing her to chuckle again before she continued. “Before you ask, no, I don’t know what causes it, but from what I have gathered it has something to do with the moon itself. The evolution was very slow at first, but eventually it changed all the ponies on the moon, creating a race unique throughout our entire world.”

“wow,” said Twilight, letting the gravity of the information go through her brain as she laid her head down on Celestia’s back, getting comfortable. “God I wish we didn’t have to move from here, this place is so beautiful.”

“I thought you might say that, so why don’t you two just stay here for now, and I’ll whip us up something special.”

“Wha…” started Twilight, only to gasp when she looked back, seeing that Luna had already constructed a camp and fire for them, and was busy cooking them something.

“Pay her no mind Twilight, she always insisted on taking care of everything when she dated me fifteen thousand years ago.”

“Really?” asked Twilight, looking back down at Celestia as the older mare yawned.

“Really, she always insists on doing everything, no matter how much you try and convince her otherwise. You should have seen the lengths I was forced to go through to try and throw her a surprise party; it’s like trying to take gems from a dragon.”

Twilight giggled, but Luna frowned at that comment, “I’m not that bad…”

“Lulu, if you recall I once set up an entire day for us to just spend alone time together, enjoying each other’s company, and right when the day was about to start you came out of the blue and whisked me off to the kingdom of the sea ponies for the thrill of it.”

“I don’t remember you complaining?”

“I couldn’t remember, I had to hold my breath till you remembered to cast the water breathing spell on me, and by then it was too late to change anything.”

Luna frowned and went back to work, while Twilight looked back at Celestia with a questioning glance, “why do you call her Lulu?”

Celestia smiled, “it’s actually a name one of our older siblings came up with, which one was it Lulu?”

“Sister Fantasia,” said Luna, much to Twilight’s surprise.

“You have older siblings?”

“Yes of course,” said Celestia in an off hoofed sort of way, “two of them in fact, and you have met them both.”

“I have, I don’t remember…”

“You wouldn’t, for at the time we did not reveal at the time that we were related.”

“Well who are they,” asked Twilight, deciding she would rather ask then try to figure it out herself.

“Sister Fantasia, the goddess of dreams; whom you saw as the creature Nightmare Moon, and Queen Chrysalis, mother earth herself and ruler of the now restored breezys.”

Twilight’s eyes widened in disbelief, but before she could ask further Celestia put a hoof to her lips, shaking her head before she spoke. “Now is not the time for those stories, and in truth those are not our stories to tell, but when they are ready, they will be more than happy to share it with you.”

Twilight really wanted to enquire further, but she could tell by the look in Celestia’s eyes that she would get no answers, so she let the matter drop.

“Alright,” said Luna with a grin, “food is hot, everypony dig in.”

Twilight and Celestia moved over to the fire, joining Luna and enjoying the well cooked meal, and then falling asleep curled up next to each other, both princesses kissing her good night before finally drifting off to sleep, their dreams filled with bliss.

Author's Note

Happy late Hearts and Hooves Day guys, sorry this chapter took so long, but I had some bumps along the way as well as wondering what I should and should not in the chapter. Next chapter will be the second date night, which will reveal a bit more history behind both Celestia and Luna's origins, as well as a revelation about what Celestia and Luna were before becoming alicorns. As always I hope you enjoy the chapter, and if you guys have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop them on by.