Dark Light

Three days had passed since the seven heroes arrived in back in Ponyville. A lot of things had happened in Equestria. Celestia announced what had happened and thanked the ten ponies for their brave work; she mentioned Dark Light and how he had sacrificed himself to save Equestria. Shimmer had been depressed for the entirety of the first two days, not leaving her house and just feeding her son and barely eating, herself. She was eventually forced to go outside by Applejack and they went to sugar cube corner with Bold Flash. This was good. It was a step up from being alone in their house, secluded from the universe.

The two mares started talking as Pinky volunteered to look after the little colt during the day for Shimmer, She was grateful for this and she and Applejack made the most out of her first day out of the house in a while. After eating at the cake’s small café applejack decided to do something that they would both enjoy. They went Sweet Apple aches and were immediately greeted by an agéd mare who told them that she had made a pie with some left over zap apples and asked if the two of them wanted to try some. It wasn’t every year that they had the multi-coloured apples in a pastry due to the large demand of zap apple jam but this year, they had harvested more zap apples than ever before so they had enough for a few pies and even some zap apple cider, which was surprisingly delicious.

As the day came to a close, the two mares walked back to Sugar cube corner to collect the small blue colt from Pinky Pie.

“Thanks for looking after him Pinky,” The colt’s mother said, smiling for the first time in a few days.

“No problemo! Any time you need a foal sitter, just ask. He sure was better behaved than the baby cakes usually are. I didn’t get covered in flour at all today!” The pouncy pink pony said, happily. She got a questioning look from the other two mares but then they just shrugged and giggled trotting off back to Shimmer’s house.

“Hey Applejack, would you mind staying over for the night, you can sleep in the spare bedroom, it’s just… I’d like to have somepony else in the house, aside from flash,” The light blue unicorn ask.

“Of course sugar cube,” The farm pony responded. They got to Shimmer’s house and said goodnight to each other, Applejack going to the spare bedroom after being told to take whatever she wanted if she got hungry during the night, she thanked her host and waited for Shim to go to bed before doing so herself. Shimmer was comforted knowing there was somepony else in the house. She would sleep well that night.

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Meanwhile, two sisters gathered outside the collapsed door of Tar-tarus.

“Are you sure this will work, sister?” The taller white one asked.

“Certain,” The slightly smaller dark blue one responded.

“Then let us begin,” the white one put her horn against her sister’s. An aura of a swirling mix between dark blue and bright yellow started to form around the arch stones that fell when the portal collapsed . The stones started to rise and fell into their original places before it had collapsed. “You must be quick, he will be weak and I cannot hold the portal open for long” The white one said.

The portal opened up and the smaller of the two flew in with a great speed. After coming out the other side, all she saw was blackness. Blackness and a small grey shape. She flew towards the grey object and picked it up onto her back. The object moved and let out a weak questioning moan as the two started to head back to the portal, making it through. As they burst out the other side the white alicorn holding the stones up, staining and sweating, released the magic from her horn and the portal once again collapsed. The white alicorn walked over to the grey object, which was now revealed to be a unicorn, and pressed her horn against it. The yellow aura started to appear around the horn and the unicorn suddenly gasped and woke up.

“Food! Water!” he said in a raspy, weak voice. The white alicorn drew out a water bottle and a large amount of food, mainly apples. The unicorn started to drink the water and eat the food, but realised who was surrounding him. “Princess Celestia? Princess Luna? What? How? When? WHAT!?” He said, dazed and confused.

“When you killed Chimera, Tartarus collapsed, but when an entire dimension dies, everything in it that is still alive,  , stays alive in an empty void, forever, having a hunger that will never kill and a thirst that cannot be quenched despite what I had been led to believe by the one who erected the spell -starswill the bearded. It is an eternal form of suffering that should not be endured by anypony. You have endured this suffering for ten days. Everypony thinks you are no longer alive, but despite the amount of time you spent in there you are alive and look surprisingly fit, but before you can venture back to Ponyville there is something that I must do,” Celestia said, then nodded at Luna, who pointed at the grey unicorn with her horn and blasted a spell towards him.

The grey unicorn looked around him to see nothing but what looked like stars. And then Celestia.

“Where are we?” He asked.

“You are in a place that few ponies have seen or are going to see. This is my own realm; it is infinite and can contain any thing I will it to contain. It is also where I take those whom I deem worthy of being made a royal by their own right. You are one such pony. You have shown the true skills of leadership: self-sacrifice, courage in the face of fear and understanding of the certainty of fate. For all you have done for Equestria and for your willingness to sacrifice your life so Equestria could be saved, I feel you have earned the title of the first male alicorn prince… or princess, I still need to work on the formalities of the title, it is kind of confusing,” There was a pause of silence, as the grey unicorn looked puzzled, as a small bright light encircled him. Then there was a bright flash and he descended in down to the ground around the collapsed Tartarus portal, where the other alicorn was standing.

There was something different. Dark Light had a strange feeling on his back, as if he had something growing out of it. He turned he head so he could see what was causing it and his jaw dropped.

“I… have… wings?” He said, his mind struggling to take in what had just happened. “WHAAAA?” Both of the other alicorns laughed.

“Of all the ponies that I have turned into alicorns, your reaction is by far the best,” Celestia said through a smile. Dark Light gave her a questioning glance as if to say ‘what can I do with these?’ “When you get back to Ponyville, I’m sure Rainbow Dash will help you learn to fly. Anyway, back to formalities. You are now, technically a princess, but due to the fact you are not a mare, I will change your title to prince, so it isn’t embarrassing,”

“Wait, Am I going to have a big coronationey thingymadohickey, like Twilight did?” The newly made alicorn asked.

“I am afraid so,” Celestia said with a smile. Dark Light *ahem* PRINCE Dark Light sighed. “You should go back to Ponyville, I am sure your wife will be overjoyed to see you, I can teleport you there if you desire. I will send word to you when you are needed in Canterlot,” The prince nodded and the white princess placed her horn on him. There was a flash and all of a sudden he was standing outside the train station in Ponyville. Without much ado, he ran straight to his house and knocked on the door. To his surprise, it was opened by an orange earth pony, he recognised.

“Hey, A.J.,” He said casually, getting a sudden hug he knew was coming and a very damp shoulder, “Ya miss me?” She pulled him in and then ran upstairs to Shimmer’s room and woke her up.

“Sugar cube, yah gotta see this!” She nearly shouted. The light blue mare trotted down the stair wondering what was so important. She nearly had a heart attack when she saw her husband, smiling awkwardly at her and then being pounced on by his wife, their lips immediately colliding in their first kiss in a month.

“I thought you were dead!” She said through her tears.

“I thought I was dead!” He said in reply holding in his tears. “Oh, and did you notice anything different about me?” He said as he rose up to his hooves. His wife looked at him, confused just before he expanded his wings. They spread out farther than he imagined they would. He was a large pony and thus he needed large wings (unlike - what's his name - bulk biceps). His wife’s jaw had the same reaction that his did when he first saw them.

“You… How? What? When? WHAT!?” Dark Light laughed and embraced her, whilst Applejack was still taking in what was happening. Wings. Dark Light had wings.

“Anyway, before I give you a long arduous explanation I really need some sleep,” He said and then looked at his wife’s face, doing her little seductive look she did whenever she wanted ‘relief’. He gave her a little provocative smile. “but I have a feeling I won’t be getting much tonight,”

“Ah think it’s high time I head back to the farm, give you two some privacy,” Applejack added awkwardly.

“You can’t. not this late just stay in the guest room, and is it alright if we put Flash’s crib in there with you?” Shim asked, the orange mare sighed and nodded, walking up the stairs and dragging the small foals crib into the guest bedroom quietly, so that the married couple could share the night alone. And what a night it was.

******Earlier that night*******

The portal was open, his master was dead but this minion thought he should do one last thing before he gave up all hope. He was going to find the pony that killed his master and bestow upon him his deserved punishment. They would pay for their crimes. The minion didn’t know that the pony he was looking for was there with him, so he went through the portal. When he felt ground again he looked around and saw a tall pony with both wings and a horn. He silently sneaked away and begun his search.