For the most part of the next day, ponies all around Canterlot observed something pink flashing and/or flying around the city, seemingly in a great hurry. Being Canterlot ponies, they ignored it and went back to whatever they had been doing. With their noses held high, of course.
But things were happening very quickly indeed. Building-In-A-Day.Co(a new building in just a day, guaranteed!), Canterlot’s foremost construction company (which had a very successful branch in Ponyville) was engaged to construct a gazebo in less than five hours on the top of Mount Canterlot, a reservation was made to the Canterlot Philharmonic Orchestra to play tonight, huge bouquets of colorful flowers were taken to the castle. She even enlisted the help of Pinkie Pie (who didn’t know what it was for, but was happy to help out anyway) to decorate the entire gazebo with rose petals and some red balloons. Cadence was determined. This night was going to be perfect!
Evening fell. Finally. As luck would have it, she had found that Luna had scheduled a meteor shower for tonight! The perfect excuse! She hurriedly found Discord, and the two of them came up with the forged messages. At the castle, she watched Luna getting up to raise the moon and decorate the night with the stars, then walk to the dining room, where she would find a note, presumably by Twilight, to meet her in the gazebo at the top of Mount Canterlot to watch the meteor shower. She had also borrowed Philomena from Aunt Celestia to send a quick message to Twilight with the same message, but in Luna’s handwriting. She was nearly ready.
She quickly teleported to the top of Mount Canterlot, where she saw the decorated gazebo at the peak, with the open roof like she had requested. Everything seemed to be in order. The food, which was takeout (much to the owner’s consternation) from the grandest restaurant in Canterlot. The soft lavender and indigo cloth she had specifically requested from the Carousel Boutique spread on the floor. Comfortable cushions piled at the corner. Fireflies buzzing around softly, shedding their soft light on the gazebo and creating a much more romantic atmosphere than candles, in her opinion. The orchestra, complete with a piano, a violin, and a cello, hidden with a simple illusion spell. She had requested some soothing love songs to set the mood,and the sweet notes hung in the air, seemingly from nowhere. The bouquets of Poison Joke waved in the breeze on all four sides. Perfect.
Wait, Poison Joke?! “DISCORD!!!!”
“Keep your hair on, Cadey! Sheesh!” Discord turned the flowers back with a snap of his fingers and hurried back to where he had been hiding.
Cadence hurried back to check her preparations. Time was going fast. Night had already fallen. They would be here any minute now. She restrained a soft squeal from escaping. She couldn’t believe Twily had already fallen in love. She was growing up so fast! Finally, she heard the soft beats of wings against the air, and retreated quickly into the rather thick bush Discord had conjured up to hide them. Soon, Aunt Luna flew over and landed lightly on the soft grass, casting a confused glance at the gazebo, with all the fireflies, the music and the decorations. Not a few minutes later, There was a purple flash, and little Twily appeared on the hillside, swaying slightly from the long-distance teleport. Cadence wasn’t very surprised to see she had brought a bunch of scrolls with her, and her portable telescope as well, though she resolved to get those scrolls away at the earliest opportunity. This was supposed to be date after all. They should have gotten enough reading yesterday already.
Twilight, too, seemed really confused by all the decorations, then her eyes landed on the blue alicorn. “Luna!”
Luna broke into a grin. “Hello, Twilight Sparkle, I am here, as you have requested. You have done an amazing job with the decorating!”
Twilight looked confused. “I requested? Decorating?”
Cadence and Discord shared a panicked look. Uh, oh…
Luna nodded. “This is a truly beautiful spot to watch the stars fall tonight. It is great to see you again, Twilight.”
Twilight giggled. “Likewise, Luna. But I certainly didn’t decorate all this.”
Luna cocked her head in confusion. “You didn’t?”
Uh, oh...Uh, oh! Cadence’s mind was whirling. She needed to come up with something quick!
Twilight shrugged. “No, I didn’t. But this place is beautiful, isn’t it?”
“Yes, it truly is. Let us dine, then!” Luna agreed happily. Both mares than sat down on the cushions, admiring all the beautiful decorations, and started to eat the choice fruits and vegetables all over the gazebo.
Discord and Cadence exchanged an extremely relieved look. Unseen by the two mares eating, she quickly signaled the orchestra to stop playing for the moment. It would be better to wait til they were both too distracted by the meteors to question where the music came from. She quickly cast a glance down the mountain to see if anypony else was there. Apparently, several more couples had the same idea of watching the meteors on the mountain, albeit at a lower altitude. Now she needed something to prevent them from interrupting the couple on the top of the hill just in case they got curious. “Did you find the security like I asked?” She poked Discord lightly.
Discord blinked. “Oh, right. sure.” He snapped his fingers, and suddenly Shining Armor appeared on the scene in a tuxedo. After getting over her initial shock, she glared at Discord, who shrugged nonchalantly. Oh well. Shiny would actually do quite well.
“Oookay...why am I here again?” Shining Armor asked, slightly confused.
His wife used her magic to quickly straighten his bow. “Shh, stay quiet! They can’t know we’re here! We need your help!” She hissed.
Shining took a quick glance out of the bush and his eyebrows flew at the sight of princess Luna and Twily, who were apparently on a romantic dinner date together. Currently, they were giggling at some joke Twilight had told. He turned back to Cadence with a nonplussed expression. “I don’t get why we’re spying on Princess Luna and my sister together…” He muttered.
“You’re not spying dear, I am. You’re supposed to make sure no one disturbs their little ‘date’.”
“Wait a sec, date? Twily and princess Luna? What?”
“Trust me, Shiny, you just have to sit at here, out of sight of the gazebo and stop anyone who might have a chance of interrupting the two of them.” Cadence whispered into his ear. “Please?” she pleaded with her eyes.
Shining heaved out a sigh. “Okay…”
Cadence kissed his cheek. “Thank you, Shiny!” Shining smiled stupidly for a moment before shaking himself and turning to watch the going ons downhill, though he still cast the occasional confused glance at the two alicorns up the hill.
Cadence and Discord watched eagerly as the two alicorns talked and laughed together. They just seemed to relax under each other’s company. How sweet! If only they would just realize they were perfect for each other, then it would be even better! She just needed one of them to confess, and she was sure the other would follow. Nothing could go wrong with this night.
Finally, the main event of the night started, and the stars fell. Hundreds of bright lights streaked across the sky, illuminating the dark night sky. Even the moon seemed to have dimmed in favour of allowing the shooting stars their time to shine. It was a beautiful sight. She saw a couple of the stars starting to jump around erratically and generally act chaotic, and had to punch Discord before the other couple noticed.
Twilight had managed to set up her telescope in less than five minutes, and now Luna was looking through it at her own creations. Cadence noticed that Twilight did have one eye on the stars, but the other eye, to her immense amusement, was fixed on the alicorn next to her.
“Beautiful…” Twilight murmured.
“Hmm? Oh indeed, Twilight, the stars are magnificent tonight, are they not?” Luna replied, her eye still gazing into the telescope.
“The stars? Oh, yes! the stars. they are beautiful!” Twilight hastily replied, not noticing the bush nearby shake with muffled giggles and laughter.
Inside the bush, Cadence was peering eagerly outside, hoping for more conversation, while Shining and Discord ate popcorn and cotton candy for dinner. And played cards. Males… At any rate, the situation outside was definitely getting better! She signalled to the orchestra members, who had also been enjoying the view a little way off, causing them to pull out their instruments and start playing the soothing, soulful notes of a love song. If the two mares noticed, they gave no sign.
“Your nights are always so beautiful, Luna.” Twilight sighed happily, taking another sip of her hay smoothie while her head rested on Luna’s side. Apparently none of them had really noticed the contact yet.
Luna giggled. “Thank you, Twilight.”
“No problem, Luna. This is great! I wish this night could last forever.” Twilight smiled. Suddenly realizing what she had said, she froze, as did Luna. The two alicorns exchanged a look, then burst into giggles.
“I believe thou hast stolen my line, Twilight!” Luna joked, causing both mares to collapse in laughter.
This was Perfect! They were already letting down their guard around each other! Soon, very soon! Cadence was close to squealing out loud. Suddenly, Discord’s head shot up with a worried expression. “Uh oh…”
Her head whirled back to stare at him, horrified. “What uh oh?” Nothing could ruin this night, could it?
“Something really unexpected is going to happen! I can feel it!” Discord remarked, watching his chaotic-o-meter (A statue of him with numbers on it, with its hand pointing to his head, where there was a number 9) he held in his hand vibrate crazily. The two ponies and one draconequus looked around as fast as they could to spot the potential chaos before it could disrupt this perfect night, but they were a little too late.
A sparkling purple hot air balloon suddenly rose up the side of the mountain. As soon as the basket touched the ground, a pink blur shot out and tackled Twilight to the ground, followed by Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Spike, albeit at a much slower pace.
Twilight managed to remove Pinkie off her face. “Pinkie Pie? How did you…where did you… huh?”
“Oh, hello Twilight! You see Rainbow Dash told us tonight we were going to have a meteor shower, and I knew how much you liked those, so i immediately went to find everypony to make a ‘meteor shower night party’ like the one we had the night Spike spiked the punch, but then when we couldn’t find you anywhere so I moved all my party supplies into your balloon and we had a ‘Find Twilight so we can have a meteor shower night party party’ on the Balloon! So we started searching for you but couldnt find you anywhere but then Spike remembered you went to Canterlot in the evening so we flew all over here to Canterlot and then we saw you so we flew over here to have our ‘meteor shower night party’ with you so you could watch the meteor shower with your friends! Were you surprised? Were you? Huh huh huh?” The energetic pink pony said the last word and sucked in a deeeep breath, watching Twilight happily.
Cadence, Discord and Shining’s jaws dropped open. ‘Information overload!’, their eyes spoke
“Very surprised, Pinkie!” Twilight smiled and threw her arms around her friend. “I didn’t know you were looking for me!”
“Oh dear, we’re not interrupting anything, are we, darling?” Rarity asked as she took in all the romantic decorations and the obviously ‘dating atmosphere’.
YES! YES YOU ARE! NOW GO AWAY AND LEAVE TWILIGHT AND LUNA IN PEACE!!!! Unfortunately, Cadence had never learnt if telepathy was possible, and she couldn’t beam the thought into their minds. She had to settle for trying to burn a message with her eyes from the bush.
“Oh, of course not Rarity! you’re welcome to join us, right Luna?” Twilight asked.
SAY NO! SAY NO!
“Of course! You are welcome to join our little party! If we knew you wanted to come, we would have invited you sooner!” Luna beamed.
The sound of a hoof hitting a forehead is quite loud, but nopony quite heard it from the bush a little way off. The sound of a spirit of disharmony giving up and just laughing at the chaos is also quite loud, but nopony really heard it because of the loud cheer that Pinkie gave. "LET'S GET THIS PARTY STAAARTED!!!"
In short order, Pinkie found the musicians (how she broke the illusion spell, Cadence would never know) and got them to play some more upbeat music, and the rest of the night was spent laughing, singing and dancing.
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In the council room of Canterlot Castle, one pure white alicorn and a draconequus watched with mild amusement as a pink alicorn slammed her head against the table repeatedly. “I cannot believe it! I just cannot believe it! What were the odds? And they were both sooo close then! AAARGH!! Fate hates me!”
Discord shrugged. “Well, you did say-” He summoned a screen and played a scene. It showed the council room of yesterday, with Cadence confidently saying ‘What could possibly go wrong?’. He smirked. “You’d think ponies everywhere would have learnt by now that saying that is just begging fate to do something to mess it up. Readers love that gag.”
Cadence groaned and buried her head in a cushion. “It was going so perfectly too…”
Celestia cast a quizzical glance at Discord. “Readers? gag?”
Discord quickly waved his talon dismissively. “Doesn’t matter. Well, both of you have tried and failed, no? So tomorrow is my turn!” He gave a full-blown, perfect villain laugh, with the slow dramatic cackling, getting louder and louder, until he was laughing at the sky with his arms outstretched. The cotton candy clouds around the room dumped their chocolate cargo on the two alicorns beneath with a flash of lightning. Abruptly, he stopped laughing and grinned. “I shall have to begin planning! This is going to be fun!!!” He teleported off in a loud flash.
Celestia and Cadence exchanged an extremely worried look.
look out ladies youve had your chance now its discords turn the next chapter is going to be spectacular..not that...these ones..weren't
This was glorious!
Hmm...the most chaotic thing Discord could do...would probably involve lawn flamingos.
Hey! Congrats on hitting the feature box with your first story!
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
Why did she say that...
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honestly, im stunned! I wasn't expecting this either, and I am truly shocked at the amount of people who have favourites this story in just a day. I nearly fell out my chair when i saw it in the box. You guys are all awesome. :) really.
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honestly, im stunned! I wasn't expecting this either, and I am truly shocked at the amount of people who have favourites this story in just a day. I nearly fell out my chair when i saw it in the box. You guys are all awesome. :) really.
damb so close
Dat cover art tho...
this was very entertaining, but there is one tiny thing that bugs me:
what did Cadence think was going to happen? she had to have known that one of them would say something like that to the other at some point. what? did she think that they would both look at the dinner, the flowers, and the fireflies and just roll with it without asking any questions?
So...Either Discord will actually surprise us all and succeed, or he'll fail horribly and Twilight and Luna will get together on their own somehow without any meddling.
I can't decide which possibility would amuse me more. Either way, I wasn't expecting another update so soon. Here's hoping for another one
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Well, when you get so enthusiastic and single-minded about something, you tend to miss some rather important details...
Squee!
3831677 I honestly don't even know how you got in the feature box but man, I'm jealous I struck out with my first fic and you're the second newish user in the past month to get a story featured on your first go, I'm happy for you, but I'm also salty
This is just loooovely... And now it's Discords turn, run.
Also, OPERATION TWILUNA IS GO!
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Thank you for that! Yup, that's exactly what happened. For cadence. (and me) =P
Give me more!
Great stuff! Can't wait for more. Also, what happened to Shiny? Shouldn't he be trying to shoot down the balloon? Launch a ground-to-air Cadance... er, missile?
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It's kind of destined that Discord's plan will fail, seeing as how chaos never works the way you think it will. Still, almost certain his plan involves a box, time, and possibly a few Phoenix Downs (Celestia can spare some). Or he could do the most chaotic thing of all, which I will not announce at this time.
The kind of night that she had dreamed since Twi was small.
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Your avatar makes that creepy.
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'Help from another world' under the name pjcrazy. :)
curse you lol
I got a question, why was Shining armor eating playing cards? I can see Discord doing that, but Shining?
So far so good, the cliche count is awesome so far...
And yes, I bet that Twi and Lulu are together already...
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if he was, it would make sense discord would probably bring edible playing cards.
3833217 You lied to me.
There isn't a story with that name, i just googled it.
Oh Discord.
3833347 The eating and playing cards were two separate activities.
I usually don't read ship fics, but with the everyone tag and the fact that it's on the featured list you have my attention.
READING OPERATION COMMENCES NOW!
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A twisted, chaotic rendition of "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid?
Sudden idea for how this ends. After everyone's plan has failed...
Twilight: Celestia, Cadence, Discord...why were you doing all of this.
Celestia: Well, uh...
Cadence: We were just thinking of your happiness.
Luna: Then...thou werest trying to bring us together as a couple?
Discord: That about sums it up.
Twilight: That's a relief.
Celestia: How so?
Luna: Sister, the reason I have been less active than normal is because I am pregnant with Twilight's child.
Celestia, Discord, Cadence: WHAT?
*Twilight trollface*
whenever you say "what could possibly go wrong" the universe stops looks at you and says "challenge accepted"
Below that's actually right someone in my classroom just said that instead it was me an her...(since we are very close friends like bffs)
3833074 When's the next 'Rustic and Romantic' chapter coming out? (you mention your own fic and your just asking for it, i did like your take on it)
Just how much more accurate is Discord's Pinkie Sense than Pinkie's?
You can do it, Discord!
Discord is a master of seduction. I know this because of reasons.
I can't write Discord for anything. TTS's though, should be plenty fun!
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SFW version is ready now. NSFW version is in progress. Hoping to post them both at the same time (NSFW separately) this weekend.
It kinda hurts me to say this but uh. I have to say....cliche. You want a stereotype of a comedy where people try to get a couple together? It's all here. Nothing was unexpected. So much so that I could swear I've read an identical story before, exchanging Luna and Celestia's places.
I would never claim to be the most creative writer out there, and the execution is good. I don't wish to be severe, I'd just ask you to give thought to going above and beyond the expected in later chapters or perhaps other fics.
Discord should totally be the reason they get together, it's so unlikely it makes sense.
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I'm pretty sure it exists, as I wrote this story myself...
I love this Ship, I love both TwiLuna and LunaCord
Breakin dat 4th wall.
awesome
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But is it really breaking the fourth wall, if you're a god of chaos?
Just another Monday morning for Discord.
Fourth wall breakage by none other than Discord.
Nice. Nice.
~Skeeter The Lurker
Thine 4th wall hath been broken by Discord.
niiiiiice
4066885 Who is better at breaking the fourth wall, Discord or Pinkie Pie
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I'd say Pinkie. Discord in the show hasn't done anything to break the forth wall, and as far as my knowledge goes Pinkie has done three things.
5491686 He has been shown to break it in the comics.