The Moonshine Series

Drop of Moonshine is a fanfic written by Pen Stroke. It details the events of Celestia’s drunken stupor after having the first drink of Luna’s moonshine she has had in a thousand years. It is the prequel to A Mug of Hard Cider, and part of The Moonshine Series as it was dubbed by Equestria Daily where it was originally posted. The story was written before the debut of season 2 of. As such, the author reminds the readers that Luna may be a little out of chracter.

Style
The story is written in the third-person, past-tense. It alternates betwee the thoughts of Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle. These transitions are marked by lines running across the page, or by the chapter break.

Summary
Princess Celestia makes her way to her room after a long and tiring day. Her sister comes in shortly after, having experienced something similar. Princess Luna makes her way to Celestia’s desk and tries to find one of her sister’s bottles of dinking alcohol. However, her sister tells her that she has been sober for nearly a thousand years, since after several heavy drinking bouts after banishing Luna to the moon, alcohol was banned from Equestria all together. Luna decides that since there isn’t any alcohol in Equestria, she would make her signature drink: Moonshine created from the light of the moon itself. Princess Celestia begs of her sister not to, but remembering the exquisite taste and flavor of Luna’s moonshine, she decides to “have just one”.

Naturally, several glasses later, the two Princesses are halfway to getting drunk. All of a sudden, one of Twilight’s friendship reports appears. Princess Celestia reads it aloud for a bit, the gist of the letter insinuating that Twilight and her friends all had a rough day, but stops since it was too long and she didn’t feel like reading it all. Princess Luna tells her sister that she ought to tell Twilight to shorten her friendship reports, and that they could probably visit her now since she stays up late reading anyways. Celestia thinks this is a great idea, so the two alicorns jump out the window and fly awkwardly to Ponyville.

Twilight Sparkle finishes putting Spike to bed, and heads downstairs to read an informative book on rock-farming. However, a few paragraphs in, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna collapse through her window. Twilight Sparkle is alarmed by the behavior of the two Princesses. However Luna explains that they are simply drunk, while Princess Celestia asks for some food. Twilight decides to do some quick research in the kitchen about what drunk means (since the word had not been used for a thousand years) while she makes some sandwiches. However, upon coming back, she finds Princess Celestia has disappeared.

Twilight puts Spike in charge of watching Princess Luna, telling the Princess not to drink any more booze while she searches for her sister. She then heads to Sweet Apple Acres since Luna said Celestia said something about wanting to eat apples. Applejack wakes up from her sleep when she hears Winnona barking, and notices the lights on in the barn. Upon investigation, she finds Twilight, who manages to convince the sleepy mare that she is the only one there. Twilight then turns her attention to Princess Celestia, who has decided to partially eat apple after apple, throwing it away after a bite or two. The Princess, in her drunk stupor, suddenly exclaims that she would like a drink. Then, almost bursts into tears as she recalls banishing Luna to the moon. As fast as she changed, she recovers, and exclaims that she would like a drink again.

Twilight lies to the Princess, telling her that she can have a drink if they go back to the library. Princess Celestia then follows her student, singing the first few lines of the theme song over and over again. Suddenly, she goes back into her sad thought about Luna, saying that she does not thank her enough. Twilight carelessly suggests she get her some flowers, so Princess Celestia bolts towards the Everfree Forest and begins frolicking in some poison joke, intending to harvest them for her sister. She picks the flowers with her mouth, so Twilight tells her to spit them out. Instead, the Princess eats them. Celestia them exclaims she needs a drink to wash the taste of the flowers out of her mouth, so Twilight reminds her that they were going to the library for one. The Princess then follows her student to the library.

When Twilight arrives at the library, she finds that Princess Luna has made a large stockpile of her Moonshine, which lies in glasses and pots all over the floor and tables. She asks Spike why he didn’t stop her, to which he replied that she had begun to make it over the floor. Princess Luna hadn’t been doing any drinking while her sister was away, but as soon as Celestia begins drinking again, Luna resumes as well. Twilight then decides to close all the shades so the Princess of the night cannot make anymore of her booze, and decides to let the Princesses drink themselves to sleep.

The next morning, Princess Celestia wakes up to a massive hangover. She raises the sun before sneaking upstairs to the bathroom so she can take a piss, but is dumbstruck when she catches sight of herself in the bathroom mirror. Twilight then wakes up to the sound of running bathwater, and barges in on her mentor to find that she has been colored pink by the effects of the poison joke. Twilight then sets off to get the ingredients for the cure, while Celestia reflect upon what happened last night. She doesn’t remember any of it, but she remembers having fun. Princess Celestia decides that she would have a drink or two every few days or so.