The Return of the Dark Lightning Menace

After a heated battle, the beaten tyrant known as Thunder Drum made a hasty retreat. Meanwhile, Eternal Flames was rescued by his friends and taken to the Ponyville Hospital. Immediately, the doctors had begun to treat Eternal to his wounds. Luckily, the valiant young stallion's wounds weren't deep enough to cause any permanant damage to his muscle tissue. The wounds had successfully been disinfected and later on got bandaged up.

The gang was in the waiting room, hoping the prince wasn't in serious danger. Soon, Tidal Wave's sweetheart, Nurse Red Heart and walked up to the gang to inform them about Eternal's condition.

"Because you got him here so quickly, Eternal Flames is going to pull through just fine." Red Heart says with a warm smile. Most of the gang sighed in relief while the others jumped with joy.

"Thank goodness. I thought he was a goner." Sunset says, placing her hoof over her heart.

"It'll take more than that to make Eternal kick the bucket." Shadow says.

"Yes, well he still needs to take it easy. He'll need to take a whole week off before he can even walk again." Red Heart explains.

"Well, can we at least go and see him?" Sunset asks.

"Sure, just try not to ask him too many questions. His room is down the hall, last door on the left" Red Heart explains.

"Oh thank you so much." Sunset then made a mad dash towards the room Eternal Flames was resting in.

As soon as she opens the door, she immediately felt her heart drop. Eternal's whole torse and left hoof was completely wrapped up in bandages while his right hoof was only slightly bandaged. Sunset walked towards him with tears in her eyes and hugged him, but not too hard so as to not injure him further. Eternal hugged her back with his non-injured hoof.

"I was so scared. *sniff* I thought I was gonna lose you! How could you act so reckless?" Sunset says, before she buried her face gently into Eternal's chest, sobbing.

"I'm sorry I made you worry, Sunset. The last thing I wanted to do was make you worry. But I guess I fucked that up." Eternal says, gently rubbing his right hoof in a circular motion over her back. "What about you? Are you okay?" Sunset then lifts her head up and nods to let him know she's okay. "That's a relief. You know I don't want you to get hurt." After hearing this, Sunset lean in and gave Eternal a short brief kiss on the lips. "Hey, could you ask Shadow if Heat Wave is doing alright? I have to know if he's alright too."

"There's no need to ask, buddy." said Shadow, as he walks in. "I just got word from Lyra and Bon Bon saying that Heat Wave is going to be just fine, he only took a slight blow to the face but there's no permanant damage."

"Thank goodness. Thank you, Shadow Force." Eternal says, warmly.

"No prob buddy, and nice job on taking down that bastard." Shadow says before walking out of the room.

--

The week went by a bit faster and Eternal Flames had made a full recovery. Eternal's mom, Princess Celestia had returned from the Changeling Kingdom and had gotten word from both Eternal and Royal Blaze about the evil tyrant Thunder Drum and how Eternal made him fall back into a hasty retreat. Princess Celestia was worried at first because the tyrant had targeted her sons but immediately calmed down as she saw that her boys made it out safely.

Later that night, Eternal Flames had decided to take Sunset out on a date. First they had dinner at the Hay Burger. Turned out Sunset liked hayburgers as much as Twilight did. Eternal witnessed how cute Sunset Shimmer was when she was stuffing her face silly with hayburgers and began to chuckle a bit. After they had dinner, He brought her to Neigh Falls to listen to the sounds of the roaring water as is crashed down on the river. The sound of the waterfall was music to their ears while they watched the moon rise above the night sky.

"Hey Eternal?" Sunset asked.

"Hmm?" Eternal replies.

"Remember how Twilight dared me to kiss you back at the human dimension?"

"How could I not forget? It was definetely one night I'll never forget. Especially since it was my kiss."

"Your first kiss?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?

"Well I kind of thought you had gone out with at least a few mares before you met me and they gave you your first kiss."

"Well, there was only one other mare I use to date. But I never kissed her. She later broke my heart when I saw her cuddling up with another stallion the day before I left my old kingdom."

"Ouch, I'm sorry to hear that. But hey, who needs her, you've found a new life here in Ponyville, and to top it off..." Sunset then proceeds to grab Eternal's right hoof with her left. "...you have me." Eternal then turns to her with a warm smile.

"I'm grateful for that."

For a brief moment, the two ponies stared into each other's eyes. Eternal could see Sunset's eyes sparkling brighter than the night sky, while Sunset saw Eternal's eyes twinkle bit by bit, making the stars in the sky look like their not shining. Before long, the two leaned in closed to each other with their eyes slowly becoming lidded. They soon stopped with their muzzles just inches away from each other.

"Eternal." Sunset says softly

"Sunset." Eternal says softly

"I love you" they say in unison before their lips connected with each other. The two ponies then wrapped their hooves around each other, thrusting their tongues in each others' mouths.

'If this is what love truly feels like, I never want it to end. I love Sunset Shimmer so freaking much!' Eternal thought to himself.

'I've never known what it's like to truly fall in love, but with Eternal, I think I now know. I love you so much, Eternal Flames!' Sunset thought to herself before both of them brake free of the kiss, breathing heavily.

"Sunset Shimmer, thank you so much for helping me get a second chance at finding love." Eternal says, pulling her in a hug.

"You're welcome, and thank you as well." Sunset says.

Later on, it was time to head back home to get some sleep. Since Sunset Shimmer didn't have time to find a house to live in, Eternal offered her to stay at his house. Heat Wave had been invited to spend the night at Twilight's house during that night so Sunset and Eternal had the room all to themselves.

Next door, Shadow Force was in his bedroom, looking at a picture of him and his mother, Princess Luna. He was still a bit upset knowing that his grandfather, King Sombra killed his father, Dark Void, but he was still relieved knowing that his mom is still around. He was then caught off guard to the sounds of moaning from the other room.

"What the hell?" Shadow said to himself. He leaned against the wall to where Eternal's room was, which was where he heard the moaning come from which gave him an idea of what was going on. 'No way, don't tell me Eternal's going at it with Sunset.' The moanings start to grow progressively louder making him back away. "Shit, talk about intense. Good thing I bought those music buds from the store Vinyl told me about a few days ago." While he kept hearing the grunts and moanings, he walked over to his dresser and took out a pair of ear buds and turned on some music, specifically the sound of relaxing piano music. 'I get that Eternal loves her, but the least he can do is keep her from waking up me and the guys. I'll bet the other guys are hearing this right now.' Shadow says before drifting off to sleep.

Hurricane Blitz was downstairs getting a glass of ice cold water. After getting his cup of water, he walked upstairs only to hear Sunset moaning and Eternal grunting and panting. Hurricane obviously knew what was going on.

'Why do they have to be so loud?' Hurricane thought, before he heard the door to Ground Dasher's room flying wide open.

"Hey, who the fuck is making all that noise?" Ground Dasher says, all cranky. Hurricane Blitz pointed towards Eternal's room. Ground Dasher than walked over to the door about to open it.

"You'd better not, big guy." Hurricane said before he locks himself up in his room.

"I don't give a damn." Ground Dasher said, slowly opening the door and peaked inside to see Eternal on top of Sunset, thrusting inwards with a lot of force. He saw the fire in his eyes and the look of pleasure on Sunset's face. Ground Dasher bolted his head away from the door, still hearing the moans and grunts from Eternal and Sunset. 'Okay, I don't need to get turned on just yet!' Ground slowly closed the door without the two of them noticing it and quickly dashed towards his room and locked himself inside.

--

The next morning, the guys were all downstairs playing yet another game of poker with Hurricane Blitz yet again beating the others easily without even trying. Eternal and Sunset both walked downstairs to see the guys at the table playing their usual card game.

"Well, look who finally woke up." Shadow said, looking at Eternal and Sunset with a grin and then looking back.

"If you guys were going to be getting freaky last night, warn us so we can get some ear buds and listen to some music." Ground Dasher says to Eternal and Sunset while still looking at the cards on his hooves.

"Oops, my bad. I guess I couldn't help it." Sunset says with a sheepily grin, looking away, blushing.

"When my rogue instincts kick in, I can't control myself." Eternal says, turning away, blushing.

"Eh, it's all water under the bridge now so- OOH, another royal flush!" Hurricane says, laying out his cards.

"OH COME ON!!!" the other guys shout.

Listening to them argue makes Eternal and Sunset laugh and look at each other.

"Looks like things are starting to get better, huh Sunset?" Eternal asks.

"You bet, babe, and I wouldn't have it any other way." Sunset says, looking at Eternal with her lidded eyes.

"Neither would I, Sunset...Neither would I."

--

Meanwhile in a cave near the rocky plains...

" *growl* Go ahead and lick your wounds while you still can, Eternal Flames...Because by the time I fully heal...I'll make sure to take you down for GOOD this time. Then I will finally take MY rightful place and the true ruler of Equestria!" said Thunder Drum as he let out an evil laugh that echoed throughout the cave.