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Luna and Cielo made it back to town in good time and Luna was able to find her footing once more about half way back. Upon reaching town the two made their way to the town hall for Luna to give her speech, waiting for them was an agitated Celestia.

Princess Celestia had been stalling for her sister for about five minutes now and was not too pleased, though she did not make a scene or even bother to scold Luna. Celestia just remained quiet and allowed her sister to take the stage and speak to the ponies of Ponyville.

Luna gave a nice little speech thanking everypony for all the effort they put in to throw her this little going away party so to speak and apologized for not being able to mingle with everypony though not one of them complained. After Luna gave her speech everypony clapped their hooves applauding her.

Spitfire had made her way back to town just in time to catch princess Luna finishing up, taking the stage Spitfire announced that the show would be held out by sweet apple acres, setting the start of the show to thirty minutes away giving everypony time to get there and make themselves comfortable. After informing the ponies of the venue and time, Spitfire took off to the air once more heading towards the apple family's farm to finish setting up.

Luna joined Cielo at his side and waked along with the crowd on ponies heading to Sweet apple acres, "Did you notice that my sister looked a bit annoyed with me?... I did not mean to take too long."

"I'm sure she's fine." Cielo replied glancing over at Luna, "Besides it's not your fault, if she asks tell her it was because of me and my issues. Let her know I had to square things away with my mother and I held you up."

"So that's what it was huh?" Celestia asked having snuck up on the other side of Cielo, her sudden intrusion into Luna and Cielo's conversation giving them both a little startle. "Well it's about time you patched things up with Spitfire... I was a bit annoyed but I promised myself I was not going to make a big deal about it. Glad I didn't, it seems like you were late for good reason." Celestia continued on, "Though you could have just come without Cielo you know. Now that you know why he was placed at your side, there is no reason for you two to stick together constantly. I know you care for one another but being around each other none stop is going to get old quick." Celestia pointed out Luna and Cielo's constant need to be around one another but did so in a polite tone, "I'm not trying to be rude or anything just thought I should bring that point up."

Cielo and Luna looked at each other and then back at Celestia. "Who says we'll ever get sick of it?" Luna asked.

"Ya, I love being at her side and she loves being at mine what's so wrong with that?" Cielo added in.

Celestia shook her head. "Okay then like I said just trying to point that out and be helpful." Celestia started to trot ahead of the two, "But keep this in mind Cielo. Ask yourself, what's the longest time you ever spent around one mare nonstop with no personal time to yourself?" A little grin snuck across Celestia's muzzle, she knew the stallion had no reply for her.

Cielo stood silent thinking to himself; he tried to remember the most time he spent with rarity without a break. After a bit of thinking he counted five days nonstop from morning to night he spent with her, by the sixth ay Cielo was ready to get out of the house for a bit.

"That's what I thought~" Celestia teased in a playful tone looking behind her at Cielo. "Well then have fun you two and enjoy one another's company." Celestia let out a light giggle and trotted ahead out of earshot of Luna and Cielo's conversation.

"You... you won't get sick of me will you?" Luna asked with a genuine sound of concern about her voice.

"What! No... no way." Cielo replied eyed Luna as though she had proposed some crackpot theory to him. "Your sister is just messing with us; she is trying to shake me up a little, still feeling me out. I think it's her way of testing me to make sure I'm not going to run off on you." Cielo looked up at the sky, the light from the setting sun setting off a beautiful tangerine glow. "I think she is testing you a bit too, she wants to be sure you feel that I'm right for you. It's the best she can do, while trying to be supportive she is still trying to look out for you and protect you without upsetting you."

"She really is trying huh?" Luna thought about it for a moment and realized what Cielo said made a lot of sense. "So... should I tell her to stop? I mean is she bothering you?"

"No I'd leave her be unless you feel bothered that is, Celestia has given me much harder times than this trust me she's being very polite." Cielo snickered a little. "I'll admit your sister does scare me sometimes her knowledge of the things I do I swear she has a spy on me at all times." Cielo let out a little sigh smiling. "It's always been that way."

Luna smiled a bit as the two walked drawing ever closer to the farm. "Yes she has to those she cares for, you know I actually do feel bad for arguing with her sometimes. I truly feel bad about turning on her and forcing her hoof in banishing me... but don't tell her that."

Cielo chuckle a little. "My lips are sealed Luna, not a word."

"Back when mother and father use to leave her in charge of watching me I would try to give her the hardest time I could, you know not once did she crack or get mad at me for it. She always stayed so calm and collected, one time I tried to run away." Luna smiled wider recalling her past with Celestia. "I was not too good at flying though and silly me I attempted to dart off through the forest, Celestia gave chase of course but she was not that good either, you should have seen her trying to catch me it was laughable."

"So what happened?" Cielo asked listening intently and shutting out every other pony around him but Luna.

"I looked back to make sure I still had a good lead and crashed head first into a tree." Luna laughed a little recalling her own foolishness. "I cried and cried. I actually broke a bit of my horn off." Luna paused for a moment. "Celestia comforted me, carried me all the way back home. She even tried to fix my horn but she was not too good at spells yet, neither of us was as fillies. Anyway Celestia took good care of me until mother and father returned. They were so angry at her and I was sure she was going to blame me. It was my fault after all but... she never did, she never told them I ran off to try to get her in trouble. Yet she took the punishment that should have been mine just to protect me... I was good for her from that day on." Luna paused again, "Well you know up to the whole Nightmare moon incident."

"Sounds like you grew to respect Celestia at a young age." Cielo walked a little closer to Luna. "What about your parent's how come they never come and visit you or Celestia?"

Luna's expression changed, her smile quickly fading to a frown as she fell silent and continued walking.

"I'm sorry I did not mean to upset you." Cielo was not sure what had happened but it was clear Luna was not ready to talk about it. "Please don't get upset, forget I said anything." Cielo gave her a little nuzzles trying to pull her back from her sorrow.

Luna leaned into his nuzzle accepting it fully and almost feeling grateful for it. "Sorry... we'll talk about that some other time okay Cielo." Luna's voice was soft with what sounded to be sorrow. "It's not your fault you didn't know but... please don't ask me again..."

"I won't Luna." Cielo agreed and pulled back a little ending the tender nuzzle. "Are you looking forward to the show?" Cielo knew just changing the topic would not fix Luna's mood now but he hoped it would help.

"You know I am actually." Luna replied trying to cheer back up. "It's so nice everypony went through so much trouble to do this for me, I forgot how nice everypony can be."

Cielo was delighted to see Luna bounce back so quickly. It was not long before Luna and Cielo reached the edge of Sweet Apple Acres, following the main road down towards the farm Cielo could see that just beyond it bleachers had been set up. A little ways out, the finishing touches were being put on the obstacle course and the race track was getting some last minute touches as well.

The apple family had been hard at work all day making the necessary preparations including Apple Jack ,who was never a pony to pass up an opportunity to help make the farm some bits, had been busting her flank all morning. Since dawn AJ had been apple bucking, prepping fresh cider for everypony and bringing up barrels of hard cider from the cellar to sell by the glass after the show. Apple Jack also helped set up the bleacher and gave Pinkie Pie a hoof in backing up some apple pie, apple tarts and apple fritters.

A group of pegasi had finished setting up a large cloud for the princesses to enjoy the show from, one of them gave a little signal and Celestia, joined by Cadance, flew up to the cloud giving it a little look over before seeming to give their approval. Celestia landed first with Cadance landing next to her, both of them laid on their stomachs and got comfortable.

"Come on." Luna Said with excitement and took to the air, it took her a moment to realize she was not being followed. Looking back Luna saw Cielo still on the ground seeming confused as to what she wanted of him. Flying back down Luna landed in front of Cielo. "What's wrong?"

"I don't think I can join you Luna, I'm fairly sure that that is meant for you, Celestia and Cadance only... you know royalty." Cielo replied forcing a smile so as not to upset her. "I'll be just fine down here."

"I'll hear none of that!" Luna stomped her hoof speaking a in a bit of a stern voice, "you are my stallion and I wish for you to be at my side... Do you not wish to be at my side?" Luna questioned.

Cielo stepped back a tad feeling Luna was being a bit assertive. "Well yes I want to be at your side Luna but..."

Luna cut Cielo off before he could get the second part of his sentence out. "No buts! Now let's go!" Luna almost sounded commanding before she took back to the air stopping halfway again and waiting for Cielo.

Letting out a sigh Cielo had no choice but to obey and follow, opening his wings Cielo took to the air.

Feeling satisfied Luna turned and continued up to the cloud, she was not trying to order Cielo so much as she felt she was motivation him though clearly it was taken the wrong way. Reaching the large cloud Luna landed and laid next to her sister peeking over the edge to look down at the track before lifting her gaze to the obstacle course in front of them, the view was truly going to be amazing.

Celestia caught Cielo out of the corner of her eye land on the cloud next to Luna causing a few ponies down below to take notice. "Cielo what are you doing? You can't be up here." Celestia said politely. "You should know that, this cloud is reserved for royalty... not to be mean but you'll have to watch from the ground or find another cloud."

"Yes ma'am." Cielo replied opening his wings again and leaving the cloud not wanting to cause any trouble. No sooner did he take to the air he was forced back down to the cloud.

Luna had used her magic to make Cielo land and lay beside her much to the stallions surprise, a few more ponies started to take notice as everypony was arriving and getting settled in, a few even seeing Cielo forced back to the cloud. "I invited him, he is my stallion and he is staying by my side end of story." Luna said with a bite to her tone glaring over at Celestia.

"Excuse me!?" Celestia's voice elevated a bit in anger at her sisters lack of respect. "What gives you the right to talk to me like that? This is the way it has been and should always be; don't act like this is new to you!" Celestia glared at a rather shocked Cielo. "Did you put her up to this!?"

"No! I..." Once more Cielo was cut off by Luna, now arguing the sisters were starting to draw more and more attention though they were not loud enough for the ponies below to make out what was being said.

Luna's left wing shot open blocking Celestia's glare from Cielo. "Don't use that type of tone with him, he did nothing wrong! Cielo is here at MY request!" Luna was growing more and more upset with each passing moment. "You know just when I think you actually might change you go and pull something like this."

"ME! I was being nice Luna, I was rather kind in the way I asked Cielo to leave but YOU took offence to that and instantly got snippy with me, how was I supposed to know you invited him to join us hmm?" Celestia shook her head and lowered her voice a little. "Luna for the sake of Equestria we are in public I don't know what has gotten into you but you need to knock it off now, we have an image to maintain for our ponies, our subjects that look to us for guidance, you're a princess not some tart. Now get your act together and start behaving like a princess should."

Cielo put his hoof on Luna's hoping to calm her a little but Luna quickly pulled her hoof away showing she was in no mood. It seemed Cielo was helpless to do anything to stop this argument.

Cadance tried to get a word in as well sensing the situation needed to be defused but much like Cielo she was shot down instantly not able to get a word in edgewise.

"Like a princess should?" Luna scoffed. "No more like you should, you want me to be a mirror image of you, what's your big problem with me anyway? Why can't Cielo be up here and I'm a tart? Why because I actually care for somepony something you seem incapable of." Luna snapped at Celestia. "You did not give two shakes of your tail when Cadance started dating Shining armor!"

"That was different!" Celestia protested. "Cadance and Shining did not go flaunting about publicly displaying affection until they were engaged Luna, you have been with Cielo for how long now and you prance about with him like he is some kind of accessory for you to show off not giving two bits about how it makes us look!"

"And now we get down to it don't we? It's all about how I make you look, all about you. It's always about you!" Luna started to lean in a little raising her voice more.

By now everypony including the wonderbolts were curious as to what was going on. The wonderbolts were ready to start but had to wait on Celestia's go ahead as always when she was in attendance.

"Luna I'm trying to help you, you can't just go around doing as you please. There is a level of eloquence and grace you need to uphold, a level of discretion you are held to, that we are held to and judged on because of who we are... I feel like I'm talking to a child!"

"You make me sick." Luna said in disgust.

"Fine... you know what you win Luna; you want it to be like this you got it." Celestia replied standing up and spreading her wings. "Time for a bit of tough love, you want to make a fool out of yourself be my guest you'll have your chance." Celestia looked down at the ponies all gathered and realized that she and Luna arguing had been observed by everypony. Thinking on her hooves Celestia quickly spoke. "Mares and Gentle stallions, fillies and colts thank you all for coming and celebrating this joyous day with us."

Luna was seething but now realizing all eyes were focused on her she could not really say much to her sister while Celestia was addressing them.

"I use the word joyous because today not only marks my younger sister's departure, today marks her entry into marehood." Celestia said with a smile.

Luna was now baffled unsure of what Celestia was talking about, her mind racing with the craziest thoughts. Surely Celestia would not bring up the book she had given Luna, no that couldn't be it.

A few photographing pegasi took to the air and got a bit closer to snap a few pictures but were not allowed too close being cut off by a few of Celestia's guards. Keeping at a respectful distance they continued to take pictures getting good shots of Celestia.

"My sister did not know I would be talking about this with all of you on this lovely evening but I can't help it. We have had many good memories here in ponyville with you all so I can think of no better place to announce this." Celestia kept her wings spread wings giving her a regal appearance. "Please join me in putting your hooves together for my sister princess Luna Moon and her fiancé Cielo Rey!"

Luna shot up to her hooves while Cielo remained speechless, the crowd let out a roar of cheers and applause at the news. Luna's mouth was agape as she looked at her sister in disbelief, flashes went off rapidly from the pegasi photographers at the news, and this was front page worthy shots for them.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Celestia continued with a huge smile as she looked over at Princess Luna. "As you can see my sister is a bit shocked at the moment but I could not contain my joy any longer, before we begin I offer my sister the chance to speak." Celestia leaned and whispered in Luna's ear softly. "I'm sorry but you left me no choice... go on tell them the truth, tell them he is nothing more than your stallion friend and see how they react to you, expose me as the liar I am, this is what you wanted right?"

Luna was speechless, her body frozen and unable to react. She had no retort for Celestia's words or any idea how to handle something like this. Luna's thoughts raced, part of her wanted to smack her sister around, scream to the world she was lying but what would that accomplish. Luna could see what Celestia had done, If Luna exposed Celestia as a liar then her relationship with Cielo would appear weak. Part of her started to believe Celestia, what if the general public would not accept her and Cielo simply as a couple. Slowly turning her head Luna looked down at the crowd as they all looked back up at her and quieted down expecting her to speak.

Celestia laid back down feeling she had done what she needed to, it brought her no pleasure to put Luna on the spot like this but she felt Luna had to learn a lesson and since talking seemed to get Celestia nowhere with Luna, taking action was the next step. Celestia knew just how cold ponies could be first hand and it was time for Luna to wake up and learn that too.

Luna's legs quivered a bit, "Cielo... I need you" Luna said in a shaky whisper making Cielo's ears perk up.

The stallion had buried his face in the cloud out of embarrassment, never did he think Celestia would stoop so low to embarrass her sister. Slowly he lifted his muzzle and turned his gaze up towards Luna.

Luna looked over at Cielo with a distance look of desperation. "Please... please stand..." she whispered feeling each pony's gaze looking up at her and watching her every movement. Their very stairs seeming to pierce through her skin and into her soul causing Luna to feel ill, "Cielo... please..." she begged.

Cielo actually hesitated for a moment. He wanted to stay down and there was even part of him that wanted to flee but just hearing how badly he was needed, he staved his wings. Slowly the stallion got to his hooves and stood beside Luna.

Celestia eyed the two trying to figure out what was going on, she had expected Luna to come forth and deem her statements fraudulent. So why did Cielo stand she pondered, why did Luna ask for him to join her.

Swallowing hard Luna buried all her fear deep down into the pit of her stomach for now. "Move to your left a little and open your wings, keep them spread wide, chest out head held high Cielo... and thank you." Luna thanked Cielo for standing by her side the camera flashes had stopped for now as even the photographers were growing curious as to what Luna might say. They did take notice as it was taking her some time to speak.

Cielo though greatly confused did as he was told moving slightly to the left and opening his wings wide keeping them straight. Puffing out his chest a little Cielo held his head high getting a good view of the crowd.

Luna did the same and spread her wings wide, her left wing matching Cielo's right perfectly as a sign of unity. The crowd went crazy at this sight cheering and whistling while stomping their hooves on the ground in applause. Luna smiled wide, "Smile." Luna ordered Cielo through her teeth.

Cielo smiled as well now running off his instinct to follow orders, his mind had shut down having given up on trying to comprehend the situation he was just put into.

"My fiancé and I thank you all greatly from the bottom of our hearts for all your support!" Luna exclaimed with enthusiasm causing Celestia's jaw to drop. Luna was not about to let her sister get the best of her no matter the cost, if Celestia wanted to play dirty then Luna was not about to back down but instead planned to fight fire with fire. "Sorry for the long silence, you'll have to forgive us we did not plan on news being out so soon but I guess my sister just got a little too eager." Luna looked over at Celestia with a grin. "Better luck stumping me next time sis." The crowd collectively let out mixed laughs as the photographers started to take pictures once again, this time focusing on Luna and Cielo. "I'm sure a lot of you have questions, I can see the press is as eager as ever." Luna got another reaction of mixed laughs at her little joke, "but that will have to wait until after the show, for now Celestia, Cielo and I have held up enough of your time. Please Spitfire start the show and everypony enjoy!"

With that the crowd cheered once more as Luna and Cielo closed their wings and laid back down, Luna first followed by a stunned Cielo.

Having been given the green light Spitfire took the spotlight and started to talk hyping up the already hyped audience for what was to come.

"You're not going to win this time Celestia I've had enough." Luna said softly looking down at Spitfire and watching her work the crowd into a frenzy and not at her sister. "I'm tired of doing this with you always one step forward and two steps back... after tonight don't bother looking for me, don't try to contact me and don't expect me to come back... I'm done."

Celestia remained silent, she used her magic as she lifted her wing sliding a medium sized manila envelope out from under it with her magic. She then levitated it in front of Luna without looking over at her. "Before you get too rash have a look at this Luna." Celestia said in a soft voice. "I don't want you to leave but I agree this has to stop."

Luna glanced over at her sister before using her magic to take the manila envelope and open it, she slid the contents out and her eyes widened. "What is this...?" Luna asked almost in shock.

"From what I saw it's you and your stallion toy swapping saliva, it was taken by a young shutterbug and cost me quite a few bits to get my hooves on." Celestia said softly, "Call me a monster, tell me I make you sick, that I don't care or that I disgust you... all I ever do is look out for you Luna, that's all I have done since you got back. I have covered your tail at every turn because I am your big sister and that's what I'm supposed to do."

Cielo stood up as the show started getting Luna's attention. "Cielo what's wrong?"

"I'm not feeling so well Luna, I think I'm going to go for a little flight to clear my head." Cielo replied softly as he turned to leave.

"You can't leave right now we are in the middle of a show... Cielo please what's wrong?" Luna asked again getting a little worried.

"I need time to process things okay? Do you have any idea the kind of crap you two just pulled? You had me acting like a puppet on a string for you Luna and Celestia... a mare I always considered a friend used me as a pawn to teach you a lesson. I'm not some toy for you two to play with..." Cielo replied, his voice sounding hollow and monotone.

"Cielo I never..." This time Cielo did not give Luna a chance to finish before opening his wings. "Save it, just let me have a little space to think..." Cielo said before taking off.

"Cielo!" Luna went to get up to go after her stallion but was stopped by Celestia placing her wing over her sister. "Let go!" Luna protested struggling a bit.

"I'll keep an eye on him." Cadance said getting up causing Luna to stop struggling for a moment. "I'm with Cielo on this so it would be best somepony with his viewpoint talk to him right now, Luna you going after him is not what he needs right now, it's bad enough Cielo leaving drew some attention." With that Cadance opened her wings and took off after Cielo.

Looking back down Luna and Celestia noticed that Cadance was right though only a few ponies had taken notice one of them was a reporter.

Luna let out a sigh and looked through the pictures Celestia had given her, the third picture even caught a bit of tongue play between the two. "Why did you even get these?" Luna asked softly feeling the sting of Cielo's parting words.

"Because if those pictures had hit the papers without me doing what I just did to cover for you do you have any idea the field day they would have had. I might be a monster but i'd rather have you hate me then let you be branded a whore." Celestia replied watching the show commence now that the crowd was all riled up.

"A whore? going a bit far aren't we?" Luna seemed insulted by Celestia's choice of words.

"Not at all... Like i said you and I are held to a different standard than other mares Luna, you know this. It did not use to be so bad but this world... these ponies can be ruthless. You give them the chance and they will pick apart every little mistake you make. part of the reason you are going on your little tour is it not? no matter how many times you say you're sorry some will never let you live down your past." Celestia twiddled her hooves a bit. "I'm not going to be able to protect you again Luna, you'll be on your own from here on out... i'm trying to prepare you for the harsh realities you're going to have to face."

"I won't be alone... I have Cielo and I don't need your help... I can handle things myself." Luna replied with uncertainty in her voice looking at the photos still.

"Ya seeing them I can tell i'm not needed and as for Cielo... I don't know, he seemed quite crossed with you although he did not yell at you... at us...I have known him long enough to know when he is at his breaking point." Celestia stopped twiddling her hooves and looked over at Luna. "I'll apologize to him and fix this but... are you sure you can trust him Luna? I mean... he left you after making such an announcement with you, that does not look good you know. What if this whole thing..." Celestia realized how grave her error was, she might have just drove a wedge between Luna and Cielo by putting this on their shoulders. "What if I messed things up and put to much on him... what if he doesn't want to come back?"

"Please... don't." Luna did not try to hide the sorrow in her voice at the thought of Cielo leaving. "If he feels that way i'll just have to find someway to make it up to him... I... I know I should not have asked him to stand with me like that..."

Celestia pulled Luna closer to her with her wing and put her hoof on her sisters. "what about the trip? the reporters? you did offer some answers after the show."

"If Cielo wishes to talk to the reporters I will myself and should he not wish to continue on this trip then... then i'll return to Canterlot and we will simply cancel it."

"Luna, this trip meant so much to you... how can you just cancel it?" Celestia asked with a hint of disbelief in her voice.

"It does mean a lot to me... it was going to be a fresh start but..." Luna paused for a moment and smiled a little. "Cielo means even more... any i'm not going make him suffer. I'll talk with him after the reporters and explain why you did what you did. I don't think he was even paying attention when you gave me the photos... I hope he will understand and forgive me."

"I'm sure he will, i'm sorry for even planting doubt in your mind." Celestia hoped to re-ensure her sister even though she had her doubts. It was not often Cielo got upset enough to simply take off and the one time Celestia could recall it happening Cielo disappeared for days. "Cadance will help him calm down, he's in good hooves."

Luna remained quiet and watched the show progress, dash was doing an amazing job performing and almost stole the show even when paired with Spitfire but the young mare was not quite that good yet. throughout the show Luna kept looking back over her shoulder hoping to see Cielo flying back towards her but every time would look all Luna saw was empty sky. Soon Luna really started to worry to the point every few minutes she would look, her stomach starting to knot up in fear.

"Calm down." Celestia whispered stroking Luna's back gently with her wing.

"Please come back..." Luna whimpered softly still looking over her shoulder as Celestia tried to comfort her.

Celestia herself was admittedly starting to worry now as the show reached its halfway point and Cielo had yet to appear after nearly an hour.

Luna was keeping her outward appearance strong due to all the ponies being around but inside she was devastated feeling she might have pushed Cielo too hard. "Please come back..." Luna whimpered again looking down at the cloud. "Please... you promised me... please..."

Time continued to pass and the show continued on, Celestia eventually had to lower the sun and raise the moon as it grew later.

The wonderbolts had switched to their night routine using torches during their tricks to mesmerize the ponies with a spectacular light show to start to wrap things up.

After about three hours Luna was close to breaking down and the show was about to end. Lowering her muzzle to the cloud she could not longer hold it in, while the crowd cheered Luna sobbed softly. "I'm sorry... please i'm sorry..."

No matter what Celestia said to Luna nothing seems to get through to her. "I swear i'm going to kill that stallion." Celestia said angrily, she had passed her worry stage and now was becoming angry with Cielo for causing her sister pain.

"It's not his fault..." luna sobbed.

Deep down Celestia knew Luna was blaming herself more than Cielo or even her for starting the whole chain of events. "no dear... it's mine but still he should have been back by now."

"Sorry but being used is not such an easy thing to digest it turns out." A familiar voice replied as somepony landed on the cloud Next to Luna.

Luna's ears shot up as she picked her head up quickly, looking to her left Cielo stood on the cloud beside her. Getting up quickly Luna held nothing back wrapping her hooves around him she buried her muzzle in his chest and just cried, her horn resting against the side of his neck while she sobbed. "You... Jerk!" Luna managed to get a few words out between her sobs, she was not happy Cielo left but she was delighted he came back. "I'm sorry..."

"Me too." Cielo replied softly taking his wings and wrapping them around Luna, Cielo sat down and just held Luna taught to him. "I reacted poorly... I... I let my anger get the best of me."

Cadance landed on the cloud next to Celestia and plopped down seemingly exhausted. looking over ar Celestia Cadance just let out a sigh as if to say she had her work cut out for her getting Cielo to come back and it literally, physically, exhausted her.

Celestia looked back at Cielo and shot him a bit of a glare. "Cielo... I'm not happy you took off but..." Celestia softened her look. "i'm sorry, will you give me a chance to explain my actions? If you do I think I can clarify why I did what I did."

"Please Cielo." Luna pulled back and looked up at the stallion making him turn his attention to her. "She... she actually had a good reason..."

"I'm willing to listen yes but..." Cielo turned his gaze from Luna to Celestia. "You two need to listen to me to, I have somethings I want to get off my chest and I think you both need to hear them." Cielo looked back down at Luna, though he seems happy there was not much joy to be found in his eyes. "And Luna you and I need to have a private discussion before hand..."

Luna felt her heart sink a little fearing the worst. "Sure Cielo... anything you want..." Swallowing her pride Luna placed her head back against Cielo's chest. "just promise you will stay with me... please..."

Cielo felt Luna's hooves hold him tighter but no matter how tightly she held him Cielo did not respond to her.

Celestia was speechless at Cielo's silence making her question if she had actually been right, did she cause Cielo to have a change of heart. Now faced with the outcome of her actions Celestia felt mortified, she could have gone about it all another way but she let Luna get under her skin and because of Celestia's inability to just take a step back and look she was yet again the cause of Luna being in pain.

In one last ditch effort Luna looked up into Cielo's eyes beggingly as she cried. "Please say it... please Cielo... say it...."