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Chapter 59: A Walk In The Moonlight

'Reminder to self, Twilight will never stop talking about something she's enthusiastic about on her own' I thought to myself as rubbed my neck and gave it a small turn, eliciting a small crack.

The Gala was still running, but by now Celestia had returned to the party with her sister in tow. The latter looking beyond stressed out, while the former remained her ever serene self. Twilight flew off to go see her teacher and talk about... whatever it is Twilight does again. After explaining the situation to Twilight she had calmed down a lot, if she had anymore lingering worries she did well to hide them.

'She mentioned herself being the 'Princess of friendship' but as far as I know she lives in a treehouse in Ponyville' I pondered to myself as I continued my walk down the empty corridor.

I had decided to take a break from the party and go for a late night walk, which I found was starting to become quite the routine. The halls were very empty, with the exception being the odd guard patrol, which was absolutely fine by me.

After a brisk walk though the halls, I made it to the entrance of the Canterlot garden I frequented from my window. Almost as if she sensed me as I stepped out into the moonlight, I saw a flash right behind me and a familiar voice.

"I... am SO sorry about that." Luna pleaded as I turned around and saw the stress on her face. "Sometimes my sister can be a bit of a-"

"-annoyance?" I asked, getting her to roll her eyes.

Luna let out a small sigh, and nodded her head lightly. "I love her so, but sometimes she's such a pain in my flank." She joked as she walked up beside me, most of the stress having left her face. "A walk, then?"

I looked down at her for a moment and hesitated, before smiling and giving her a small nod. We both took to the garden and explored the wonderous flora and fauna that lived there. I thought I had seen a lot of the gardens but I was very wrong, I guess it just took someone who's lived here their whole life to show me where to go.

The whole garden seemed to be alive and almost glowing, many of the plants swayed with the movement of anything that went by them. Some flowers would recoil when touched, and others would let out a soft glow. The garden was definitely a treasure indeed.

Too bad I only had a couple more years to enjoy it.

'I should tell her' I thought to myself as I looked over to Luna, her look of pure happiness evident on her face as she took in the beauty of the garden around her. Eventually, we settled on a small bench in the middle of the gardens somewhere. I sat as one would expect a human to sit on a bench, but Luna seemed to have a tough time deciding how she wanted to sit. She opted for climbing onto the bench and sitting on her haunches.

The bench rested right nearby a beautiful fountain, which sprayed water in a brilliant pattern with multiple floating magical lights circling it.

We both stayed like this for a while, just enjoying the atmosphere and each others company and the sweet sound of the running water. However, this only lasted for a moment, before my attention turned to Luna as I noticed she had been staring at me.

"...Luna." I started, as she quickly spun her head to me, eagerly waiting for what I had to say.

"Yes?" She asked quickly.

'Oh god you're gonna make this so difficult...' I shakily took in a breath, and tried to bring up the subject.

"Remember when you saved me that time back at the ship. My heart was stopping and you had to administer medicine for me?" I asked, getting her to wince and look away. "Did Lucy tell you anything else about the nature of the mutations?" I questioned her, getting her to look up at the night sky almost like she was searching for something.

After a moment of silence she nodded, but didn't look back at me. "Lucy told me some things but... not everything I suppose?" She askes while avoiding my gaze.

"It'll get better... and worse." I started, taking in a small breath. "it's usually split up into four stages of mutation, I think I'm closing in on number three now... should be insanely fast healing rate at the cost of higher metabolism." At this, Luna pulled herself a little closer.

"What happens after stage four?" She asked with a small amount of desperation.

'Death, usually'

I opened my mouth to answer, but found myself choking on the words. Luna saw my hesitation and turned her head away again but this time to look at the ground infront of the bench.

"They told me I have-" I began before her hoof jammed itself into my face, silencing my attempt to tell her the grave news.

"Don't." She stated quietly. "Don't tell me. I already know I'm cursed to outlive anypony whom I love. When the day comes it will surely be a sad day for us all, but at this very moment... you're here. That's all I care about." She finished as she leaned her body into me. "And I'll be here for you. All the way to the end."

That line hit me hard, it suddenly brought to the surface the reality I was in. After all this time I thought I had convinced myself I was ready to die.

'And yet here I am, making a relationship with someone who I'll basically be abandoning' I thought bitterly to myself.

"Maybe there's something we can do." Luna started as she perked back up and straightened her body. "Surely there's something magic can do to help." She thought to herself as she began to mumble to herself and tap her forehoof on her chin.

"Maybe if we tried purifying you with the elements." She thought to herself.

"Sounds painful, no way." I stated bluntly, getting a small gasp from Luna.

"Absolutely not! The elements are prized artifacts of power and are directly connected to the veil itself." Luna lectured quickly, "All of the elements work together to access the veil and draw pure, raw magic out and into something useful, no matter what the need may be." Luna was about to continue on about magic theory, when I reached my arm around her and pulled her in eliciting a small Eek! out of her.

"Alright! I get it! You can shoot me with whatever lasers you want, as long as they melt feels not flesh." I said while giving her a small shake.

This got a small laugh out of her, and we both looked right at each other as silence reigned. Even the sound of the water fountain seems distant as I lost myself in her deep cyan eyes and we both began to draw closer. Before I could even comprehend the scene unfolding, our lips touched.

We had kissed before this sure, but I don't think I could ever get tired of this feeling. Both of us were immediately lost to our desires.

'Fuck... I really hope no one comes wandering though the garden right about now... this would be really awkward to explain...' The fear lingered for a moment, but quickly faded as lust began to cloud my mind.

Her breathing started to become much more labored as we both continued to kiss, and not long after we found our bodies against one another as I slowly lay her down on the bench, our mouths never breaking contact. As we kissed, her hoof slowly glided down my chest, before brushing past a bump in my pants.

Before things could escalate any further, the sound of a branch breaking got us both to almost jump out of our skin. Almost immediately, Luna grabbed me with her magic and pulled me into the nearby bushes. We both sat there for a moment, scanning the area for anyone who might have seen us, before a small squirrel came bounding out of the bushes across the clearing.

Both Luna and I sighed in relief before looking back to each other.

"I uh, really thought we got busted there for a second." I said nervously as Luna laughed awkwardly and agreed. "Well, I guess we'd best get back to the party..." I began as I started climbing out of the bushes, until a blue aura wrapped itself around my body and stopped me in place.

"And where do you think you're going?" Luna asked annoyed, as her tail flicked behind her, and in a flash of flight... we were in her bedroom.

Her personal bedroom.

I looked on at Luna as she climbed into her large half moon bed which, as she lit up her horn, began to turn into a full moon. "Well?" She asked as she swished her tail back and forth and lay herself down on the bed, a suggestive look adoring her face, under her obvious embarrassment.

I swallowed hard as I looked at the scene before me, and realized I was FAR outside my comfort zone.

Author's Note

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR 59 GREAT CHAPTERS!

Add yes, the moment you've all (or at least some of you have) been waiting for.

This is a Warning to any of those who do not wish to read NSFW content of which is the purpose of the Sex tag being on this story. If you wish not to read this, there will be a very obvious Warning before it happens, and how far down to skip. Thanks, and enjoy the read!