The Human Hero

Chapter 8

When in Rome... or at the Lake.

Twilight sat in her library and read one of her personal books about Starswirl the Bearded as Spike worked on lunch in the kitchen. While she would have enjoyed visiting her friends and seeing if they wanted to do anything; Dash was working Weather Duty today for Thursday's scheduled rainstorm, Fluttershy started feeling sick just after Rarity was named the Ponyville Days Pony of Ceremonies, Pinkie was still recovering from the Ponyville Days, and she wanted to give AJ and Rarity some time to cool their heads after the whole "Switch personalities" thing they did for Trenderhoof.

Suddenly, Rainbow Dash.

"Twilight," Dash said as she stood in the doorway, "Come quick, Trixie's back again."

Just what she needed, another attempt to show Ponyville that 'Trixie is the most powerful unicorn in ALL of Equestria.' Twilight put her book down and called for Spike to follow Rainbow and her as the flew to the edge of town.

By the time they got there, there was already a fairly big crowd in front of Trixie and her infamous trailer. Twilight landed and Spike walked behind her with Rainbow still in the air and AJ and Rarity already in the crowd before she showed up. AJ and Rarity nodded when Twilight walked pass them.

"Okay Trixie," Twilight said, one arm crossed with her other arm rubbing her temples, "What do you have now?"

"I am sorry for my past transgressions against you, Princess Twilight Sparkle," Trixie said with a curtsy.

Discord could walk up right now, slap her in the face, pop off her horn, use it as a tooth pick, toss it to the side, pickup Spike, and walk away with him. That STILL wouldn't be anywhere near as strange as what Trixie just did. There wasn't an unopened jaw in the whole crowd after what Trixie just said.

Trixie stood back up and held her hands behind of her like a child who was about to be scolded by their parents. Her outfit and hair were completely different from how they looked from the last time they met/fought. Her hair, which last time seemed half as big as her ego, was instead pulled back into a hair bun. While she still had her hat and cape, she switched her barely legal onsie and boots for a light teal, long sleeve t-shirt, blue jeans, and simple sandals which showed off her offset pink & light blue toe nails.

"You," Rainbow asked, "Apologize? Yeah right, and my cutie mark is a book."

"Yes," Trixie started, "I know that I've-"

"Or Rarity will finally notice when I try and flirt with her," Spike said cutting her off.

"Please," Trixie said, sounding slightly louder, "All I want to do is-"

"Or I'll finally get to say something for the first time in three years," someone deep in the crowd said.

"Or I'll yell 'I love mud' as loud as I can," Rarity said, quickly causing everypony in the crowd to turn their head towards her, "Okay, I'll yell it twice."

"SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!" a deep voice yelled so loudly that it drew the attention of the long dead. Trixie's trailer door was suddenly kicked open by a black hiking boot. Allyn walked out of the trailer and stormed over to in front of Trixie. Allyn held his hand back to her.

"LISTEN DAMMIT!" he ordered the crowd, "She's coming to all of you, the few ponies she's seen with such a great friendship, and is asking for your forgiveness and you're all acting like it's some dumb ploy. Now we've all done things in our past that we aren't proud of, to ponies we don't want to hurt but do, but we can ask for forgiveness and hope that they can forgive. Sure the past can hurt, but the way I see it; You can either shun it, or learn from it. So if even if you don't like her or hate what she's done in the past, the least you can do is forgive her; not because she deserves it, but because you should have peace."

The crowd stood in silence as Allyn and Trixie stood in front of them, like two proud ponies in front of a flock of cockatrices. It didn't take long for everypony in the crowd to realize he was right. Her new look didn't show arrogance, instead it showed that she wanted to be approached by somepony. She stepped in front of Allyn, who simply nodded and stepped back when he looked at her.

"Before I met all of you," she said in a soft tone, "The Great and Powerful Trixie wanted to believe that she didn't need anypony to feel happy. That she didn't need friends, she wanted fans and lackeys do do her bidding. But after the Ursa Minor and the events of our dual, The Great and Powerful Trixie learned that she would like to have somepony to laugh with, to share sorrow with, to call on in times of need. So I, Trixie Lulamoon, come to you all, the residences of Ponyville, to ask for forgiveness."

Twilight and her friends bowed their heads in shame, they had assumed that because Trixie had caused trouble each time that she was in Ponyville she didn't want any of them as her friend even though they wanted to be nice to her. Now she was coming to them asking for friendship and they were treating her terribly.

Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Spike, AJ, and Rarity walked toward Trixie and held out their arms, welcoming her into a hug. She smiled and walked into the embrace. A small light pink and yellow dragon girl walked out of Trixie's trailer and looked over towards the crowd.

"Spike," the young dragon said, a large smile on her face.

"Alois," Spike said waving to his fellow dragon.

She ran over and jumped in his arms and hugged him tightly. Everypony just stood there and looked confused at the two baby dragons.

"Uh, Spikey Wikey," Rarity said, "What's going on here?"

"Uh yeah," Allyn said scratching his green soul patch, "Alois, care to explain?"

"Me and Alois met during the Dragon Migration," Spike said, rubbing Alois' head, "She was with the younger dragons when I showed up."

"He started by talking about he lived with ponies," Alois said with a cute smile on her little face, "And how he had an honor code for anyone who'd save his life. Most of the other dragons thought he was nuts, but I thought it was cool."

Allyn thought of something for a second then asked Alois if that's why she's following Trixie and him. Alois explained that after she and a few of the other young dragons heard about Spike's Honor Code they thought was an excellent idea and adopted it.

Twilight then remembered that Allyn had a visitor looking for him and asked if he knew anypony by the name Swiftstrike? He thought for a moment then shook his head, then she described the stallion and Allyn and Trixie both realized who he was and then thanked her for telling him.

He looked at Spike and asked for a favor, to which Alois asked why she couldn't help and Allyn replied that he needed to send a letter to the Princesses in Canterlot and how Alois just had to learn how to preform the same spell from Spike before he would ask her. So the three of them, Twilight, Spike, and Allyn, went back to the Ponyville Library while Trixie and Alois went to find a good place to park Trixie's trailer.

"So what's the deal with you and Trixie," Spike asked, his hands behind his head.

"I'm teaching her Alchemy," Allyn said.

"You're doing what?" Twilight said, her reaction almost like if he had just slapped Celestia.

"Chill Twi," Allyn said, pulling out a folded piece of paper from the long gray coat Rarity customized for him, "I made her sign a contract when I agreed to have her as an apprentice stating that she; A) Cannot use her alchemy to harm you or anypony in Ponyvile, B) She must be more modest in her daily life and stop referring to herself in the third person, C) She must follow my teachings to the letter and after I have taught her all that I can, she may apply for Celestia and Luna's new State Alchemist if she wants to but the second part is more of a suggestion, and D) If she breaks any of the first three requirements, that she must retire as a stage magician."

"Smart," Spike said as he opened the library door, "Trixie'd never risk retiring from stage magic."

Allyn's expression changed for a moment from normal to shocked, then to sorrow.

"Actually," Allyn said, his voice slightly softer than his last part of the conversation, "She retired from stagecraft about a week after we picked up Alois in the Everfree."

Twilight and Spike looked at Allyn with shock for a second. That explained her extreme wardrobe and hair style changes, but they never thought in a million years that Trixie would actually retire. Spike sat down at the table and pulled out a piece of paper and a quill.

"Dear Princess Luna," Allyn started, allowing for Spike to copy it down on paper, "I have just re-entered Ponyville and re-acquainted myself with your sister's former student, Princess Twilight Sparkle. I have asked for her assistant to send this letter because I figured it would reach you faster than by following the traditional mailing system, though I hope that in the near future to have my new personal assistant send out letters in a similar fashion. I would prefer to speak to you and your sister personally about what I inquired about in my last letter to you. Yours loyally, Allyn."

The young dragon finished righting the scroll and, with a breath of fire, sent it off to Canterlot. Allyn reached into his backpack, which he must have picked up during his travels for it was new to her, and pulled out the books Twilight loaned him for practice. He said he was able to go through them relatively quickly, about a month ago he said he finished the last one about teleportation magic.

She didn't believe him until his horn began to glow and he quickly vanished before her eyes and reappear a moment later with a cupcake with his magic. She and Spike were shocked, she'd never seen anypony only know the teleportation spell for a month and yet have enough skill or magic energy to teleport away, teleport back, and still have enough energy to stand let alone hold something with their magic.

Suddenly, Spike held his chest and let out a large belch of fire, a reply scroll forming from the ashes. Allyn picked up the scroll and opened it, reading it carefully before Spike burped again dropping thirteen familiar golden tickets. Allyn picked up six of the tickets with one hand and picked up the others and handed them to Twilight.

"What does it say," Spike asked belching a third time, this time being just a normal belch.

"Dear Allyn Flynt," Allyn started holding the scroll in the air with his magic, "We are happy that you have finished your traveling across sister's land and hope you enjoyed it. Sister and I would gladly have a counsel with you about making a homestead in Ponyville, perhaps during The Grand Galloping Gala coming up soon. We shall send you six tickets for you, your apprentice, your friends of Alchemic Reaction, and an extra one for anypony else you would like to bring. Sincerely, Princess Luna. PS. While you are with Twilight Sparkle, please give her the seven tickets Sister shall also be sending. She has asked for them to return to make this Gala as interesting as the last one."

Allyn looked at the tickets in his hand, then to Twilight and Spike. She guessed they were heading to another Grand Galloping Gala.

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Ishneel stood near the top of the mountain overlooking Canterlot and Ponyville, keeping an eye over four of the most powerful beings in Equestria. He turned to face his trusted spy, the Changeling Queen he sent to keep an eye of the unnaturally powerful human. She looked fuller than when he sent out five months ago, not that he cared about finding a mate.

"You look like you've been feeding well," Ishneel said.

"As well as your skin is scaly," Chrysalis replied, "You didn't mention that he was a handsome stallion."

"I directed you to him," Ishneel said, "I said nothing about his looks. Though I did notice when you got exceedingly close to him against my orders."

She sat down on a nearby rock, crossing her legs like the arrogant Queen she is, "What can I say, he looked like a good food source for my people. Not that you've been helping."

Ishneel threw his arm towards the Changeling, a shadow claw holding her by the throat to the cave wall.

"Understand this," Ishneel ordered, "I have allowed you and your Changeling insects to live here in secrecy from Celestia and Luna's eyes. I am doing that out of kindness. And until Celestia and Luna are dead, you shall follow my orders to the letter. Am I clear?"

He released her neck and she collapsed to the cave floor, coughing heavily. He asked if she found anything about the stallion. She nodded, and after she finished coughing, she said he was willing to help anypony in danger. Pathetic, always helping anypony. Though now he had an idea as to how to trick the stallion.

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A couple weeks have passed since Trixie, Allyn, and Alois have moved to Ponyville and everypony in town had forgiven the new and improved Trixie for what she's done in the past, though a few ponies still were mad at her. Allyn had gotten in contact with Swiftstrike and had scheduled to meet in Canterlot tomorrow, but for the time being he and Trixie were out on Sweet Apple Acres helping the Apples with harvesting some Zap Apples.

"Are yah sure about this sugarcube," AJ asked as she, the Colossus known as Big Mac, Applebloom, and Trixie stood by as Allyn cracked his knuckles.

"Chill AJ," Allyn said as he placed his fist on the spot on the tree he wanted to hit, "I've broken cinder blocks with these fist. Punchin' a tree ain't nothin'."

Allyn wrenched his hand back and punched the tree with a loud THWACK causing two to three dozen of the rainbow colored fruit to fall from their branches. The Apples and Trixie applauded at the unicorn but slowly stopped when they noticed he hadn't moved from where he punched the tree. He turned to AJ and asked her to cover Applebloom's ears for a moment.

"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK," Allyn screamed holding his now bleeding fist.

He collapsed and began rolling back and forth swearing so much that in five minutes he had cursed more that the employees of Rooster Teeth Productions and its subdivisions have done in over ten years. After he finally calmed down and stood to his feet, AJ's, Big Mac's, and Trixie's expressions were utter horror while Applebloom's expression was innocent confusion at what Allyn said from having AJ's hands over her ears.

After he and Trixie used magic to help finish the chores around the apple farm, the two decided to head over to Zecora's to see if she had any herbs to relieve pain and reduce infection. One forty-five minute walk later, and they were at the hut of the best medicine zebra in Ponyville. Allyn knocked on the door and a salt and pepper haired African American woman in a white lab coat, black and white striped t-shirt, and tan cargo pants opened it a few seconds later.

"A stranger pony and one I've seen before," she said in her female Morgan Freeman voice, "What brings you both to my door?"

"I was punching a tree I thought I could withstand," Allyn said lightly rubbing his knuckles, "Now I need a remedy for my bloody hand." She held Allyn's fingers in hers, then walked over to a shelf of strange colored plants and started picking a few up.

"For your hand, healing brew," she said, her back to them, "Please wait a moment and it shall be ready for you."

Allyn and Trixie walked around the hut and admired the ornate mask and fluids, plants, and animals in different sized and shaped flasks. They turned when they heard a small explosion which Zecora said to ignore. After a few minutes Zecora walked over To Allyn and lightly spread a lime-orange paste on his knuckles which slowly hardened to a brownish, dark tan.

Allyn cracked the hardened paste off his knuckles as he closed and opened his hand a couple times. The chunks of the brew fell off Allyn's hand and the scrapes and blood were gone. He ribbed his fingers and was shocked that even the stinging was mostly gone.

"The healing paste's work is almost done," Zecora said putting the small mortar on a nearby table, "It will be a few days before your pain is gone."

Allyn and Trixie thanked Zecora and headed back to Ponyville. When they finally made it back to town, Allyn said he'd treat Trixie and Alois to lunch at a nearby restaurant. They picked up Alois at Trixie's trailer near the Theater in the center of town and headed over to Sugar Cube Corner.

When they walked into the bakery, Pinkie popped up and welcomed them with Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake on her head. The two unicorns and the young dragon stood in a combination of shock and terror as they watched two infants just hang off Pinkie's hair. After a few seconds, Allyn asked if Pinkie wanted help babysitting the twins but she said that she wasn't babysitting the twins today, which only confused Allyn, Trixie, and Alois even more.

Regardless, the two women sat at a table near the window as Allyn ordered some food for them. Pinkie took the orders and after a few minutes was back with their milkshakes, Allyn's plain bagel, Alois' Sapphire cupcake, and Trixie's slice of diet strawberry cheese cake. Shortly after they started, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna walked into the bakery with two members of the Royal Guard outside. Allyn, Trixie, and Alois jumped out of their chairs and knelt to the Princesses.

"Well hello Allyn," Celestia said, causing Luna to look over and smile at him.

"And just who are the two pretty mares thou are eating with," Luna asked, "Are they thou mates?"

"W-what?" Allyn stumbled with for whatever reason, causing Luna to lightly laugh, "N-no! This is my apprentice, Trixie, and my assistant, Alois."

"It is an honor to meet you both, Princesses," Trixie said as she stood up, "I am also an acquaintance of Princess Twilight."

"You must be The Great and Powerful Trixie," Celestia said smiling at the unicorn.

Trixie's expression slowly turned to sadness, "I used to be called that."

Pinkie put Pumpkin on Trixie's shoulder and held Pound Cake in one hand as she hugged Trixie with the other.

"Now she just goes by Trixie," Pinkie said, "And just about everypony's forgiven her for what she's done to the town."

Princess Luna seemed somewhat shocked by what Pinkie was saying, but Allyn just gestured to ignore it. Allyn asked what the Royal Sisters were doing in town, to which Celestia replied that they were picking up an order of sweets from the Cakes before they spent the day at the lake for relaxation.

Alois became ecstatic at the idea of playing at the lake and asked Allyn if they could go like the young child she was. Allyn wondered for a second before Celestia said that some friends were going to be at the lake with them and that they could join them at the lake, if they wanted to. Alois jumped a good five feet into the air with joy before trying to hug Celestia, to which Allyn held her back with his magic.

Allyn and Trixie thanked them and said they'd meet them there, after Allyn picked up some swimming trunks. The princesses took a small basket of sweets and cookies and said farewell to the trio before leaving the bakery with their guards. The trio went back to their table to finish their lunch before leaving to the Carrousel Boutique.

"So we'll be seeing you guys at the lake later," Pinkie said leaning on the counter.

"We," Trixie said with a small piece of cake in her mouth, "You were invited to go?"

"Yeppies," Pinkie said, "Me, Twilight, Spike, AJ, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo. And a friend of Princess Luna and her daughter, but I forget their names."

"Then I guess we should get over to Rarity's before they leave," Allyn said eating the last bit of his bagel and stepping away from the table, "See y'all there, Pinkie."

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Luna sat on her beach towel as she watched everypony else playing either on the beach or in the water. The young fillies, Alois, and Derpy were were building a sand castle near the water. Applejack and Rainbow Dash were "Chicken fighting" she believed it was called against Spike and Rarity in the water. Pinkie Pie was sitting in an inner tube floating on the water. Princess Twilight Sparkle was playing against Trixie Lulamoon, in volleyball near the Lake house where Sister and Fluttershy were having some tea. She still had not seen Allyn that much since they met up at the Cake's Bakery, she figured that he was in the Lake house with playing one of the table games Sister had for guest.

"You mind if I sit with you," Allyn's voice asked from behind her. She turned to face the muscular unicorn in the dark cobalt swimming shorts that almost matched her dark blue, sting bikini she was told would look good on her. She shook her head and he sat down on her towel next to her.

"You look beautiful in that," he said, causing her to blush, "How do you..." He pointed to her mane.

"Tis a simple spell," she replied running her hand through her mane turning it back to its light blue color, then running her hand back through it to turn it back, "And it still somewhat feels like natural mane. Care to take a gander?"

Allyn lightly stroked her mane, moving some of the constellations slightly as his fingers moved down her mane. The look he gave her made her heart almost flutter with joy. She lightly ran her fingers through his wet, silk smooth, light green mane. She scooted closes to him and placed her head on his chest, listening to his heart beat at a mellow pace.

He slowly began to sit back until they were both lying on the towel. She felt like she could simply go to sleep to the rhythm of his heart while he lightly pet her head. Before she knew it, he had drifted off to sleep under her head. She smiled, he always seemed so peaceful in his sleep. She pulled the umbrella so Sister's sun wouldn't interrupt them for a good two hours or so and placed her head back on his chest.

She heard an almost silent giggle come from around them shortly after she closed her eyes, giggling and the sound of Sister's voice saying how cute they looked. Luna slowly opened her eyes to see Sister, Twilight Sparkle and the former Elements of Harmony, Trixie Lulamoon, and Derpy around them giggling and smiling at the sight of her and Allyn asleep in the middle of the afternoon.

Allyn woke up slowly and yawned, rubbing his eyes. He looked first at everypony around them, then to her and smiled. Luna quickly stood up and blushed at how everypony was looking at them. Allyn rolled back then kipped to his feet and held a hand out to her. She took his hand and he led her out into the lake.

"What are we doing out here," she asked.

"You looked pretty lonely just sitting on the sand," he said turning to look at her, "So I figure you'd need this."

"Need what," Luna asked. Before she could finish, Allyn splashed a handful of water in her face. She jumped back at the unexpected water. She wiped the water from her face and looked at Allyn; First in anger, but after seeing him smile and laugh, it changed into playful vengeance.

He splashed her again, but this time she returned fire and splashed him back. They spent a few minutes in a splash war until Celestia, Trixie, and Rainbow joined in against both of them and Derpy joined in on their side. After a good ten minutes of fun in the water, everypony else got out while Allyn and Luna simply swam around under water.

Allyn swam deep under the surface, Luna right behind him. Around fifteen feet under, Luna grabbed Allyn's leg to state that they were deep enough for now. Allyn nodded and they started swimming back to the surface. Their heads shot out of the water as they took a deep breath of air.

"Allyn, darling," Rarity called from the shore in her lavender bikini and white skirt, "Princess Luna, the smores are done when you two are ready."

"Race ya," Allyn said as he began swimming as fast as he could to the shore. Luna smiled, replied with some minor trash talk, and began swimming after him. Allyn was the first to his feet in the shallow lake bank, but Luna was ultimately first to the smores. Allyn walked up to everypony else and dried himself off, "You got lucky."

"Tell thine self that," Luna replied as she bit into the chocolaty marshmallow-cracker creation, "If we did not know better, thou lost merely to see our posterior."

"Okay y'all," Applejack said handing Allyn a smore, "Let's try an' keep your conversation PG in front of tha lil' fillies."

"If I may say," Fluttershy whispered, "Allyn was faster in the water until Luna was able to run."

"Ha," Allyn said causing a few small pieces of cracker to fly out.

The rest of the afternoon went fairly uneventful; most of the ponies played with a Frisbee Allyn brought, Allyn played a joyous song on a guitar Sister had in the house, and she and a couple other ponies ran a relay race down the beach which Rainbow Dash won by a few feet. Allyn, Derpy and Trixie had to restrain Luna after she lost and threatened to "TEAR OFF THE RAINBOW ONE'S WINGS AND THEN SEE HOW FAST SHE WAS AGAINST THE PRINCESS OF NIGHT!"

After Sister's sun fell behind the mountains and Luna's moon rose, everypony but her went inside. She had been inside for a few minutes and shared a few laughs with the ponies inside, but even with Allyn and Derpy, she didn't feel like she wanted to be there. So she stood on the balcony overlooking the beach and watched as the new moon hung in the pitch black sky.

"Hey Luna," Allyn's voice called from behind her, "What are you doing out here?"

"We're just," she sated, "We're just enjoying the quiet of the outdoors. What are thou doing out here, wouldst thou enjoy to stay inside with everypony else?"

He walked up and leaned against the railing next to her, "It's not really fun in there without you. Even Celestia thinks it's not complete without you in there."

Luna smiled and looked at him. He smiled at her and gently moved her mane out of her eyes, placing it behind her ear. They looked back at the night sky and watched as the millions of stars sparkled, he held on to her hand so their fingers were interlocked. She laid her head on his shoulder and sighed.

All was peaceful, until the sound of Rock Music and lazers shot out from a nearby Lake house and caused both of them to look over in confusion. Luna used her magic to pull a nearby telescope to them and looked towards the house.

"Allyn," she asked, "Isn't that one of your friends?"

Allyn looked confused, so he looked through the telescope and started laughing. He looked up from the telescope and started calling to the unicorn at the house, but with the combination of music and the distance between the two house she didn't hear him.

He looked over the railing, thought for a second then jumped over and landed in the sand a few feet below. Luna looked over the railing to make sure he was safe. Allyn smiled as he brushed the sand from his mane and looked up at her.

"Your Highness," he said with a devilish grin on his face, "Care to crash a party with me."

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Allyn had picked up a suit of armor from one of the guards at the Princesses Lake house and brought Luna to the house on the other side of the lake. He looked at her, now that she was back in her Royal attire, and they silently laughed before getting all focused and sternly knocked on the door.

A man in a suit with light blue hair, a light blue mustache, and a monocle opened the door. He seemed rather shocked that both one of the Royal Sisters and a member of the Royal Guard at his door.

"M-my word," he said, "May I ask what brings the lovely Princess Luna to my Lake house on this fine evening?"

"We have received word that two fugitives are at this event," Luna said as coldly as when she and Allyn first met, "Their names are Rim Shot and Vinyl Scratch."

"Qu'est-ce que Monsieur," a tall, petite, dark skinned woman in a light pink turtle neck and white skinny jeans asked as she walked up behind Fancy Pants, "OH, bonjour Princesse Luna. Souhaitez vous et votre garde voulez entrer?"

"We would enjoy that," Luna said, "Come Major Alchemist."

"Yes Princess Luna," Allyn said as he snapped to attention.

Allyn and Luna walked pass Fleur and Fancy Pants who were freaking out in French about how they had two criminals. Allyn and Luna looked back and giggled slightly. The duo walked through the large house and onto the porch. Behind a DJ booth and a drum set sat half of Alchemic Reaction.

"Rim Shot," Allyn called out, "Vinyl Scratch." Rim and Vinyl looked at Allyn and Luna, their expressions changing from calm to terror.

"I CAN'T GO BACK TO JAIL!" Rim said before shooting straight up and flying away as fast as he could. Allyn, Luna, Vinyl, and the rest of the party guest looked up in confusion. Allyn took off his Guard helmet and asked Vinyl what that ordeal was about. Vinyl just shrugged and said hi to Allyn and Luna.

"How's Octavia doing after she got the tickets for the Gala," Allyn asked.

"Oh my god," Vinyl said, laughing hysterically, "You should have seen her reaction, she jumped around so much she literally jumped out of her robe and fell over the coffee table. And that still didn't dampen her hype."

Just imagining the scene of such a calm, level-headed, sophisticated pony freak the fuck out over a ticket caused Allyn to fall on his ass laughing. After he recovered from laughing he pulled out his phone and called Rim, telling him it was just a joke.

After a few minutes, in which Allyn took the time to switch back to normal clothing, Rim returned and kneed Allyn in the stomach. After he recovered, the three of them talked for a few minutes and they decided to do an quick improvised concert. Allyn turned Genies Hilt into an electric guitar and plugged it into an amp.

"Just follow along," Allyn told Vinyl and Rim, "Fillies and Gentlecolts. My name is Allyn Flynt, you ponies already know my band mates Vinyl Scratch on the keyboard and Rim Shot on drums. We are Alchemic Reaction and we're going to do a one play concert for you guys, ARE YOU READY." Allyn waited for the roar of the crowd to end before strumming the guitar.

Allyn strummed the opening beat and Rim and V started around the eighth note. His baritone cover almost sounded like the male version of P!nk herself. He let the beat take over and started dancing and whipping his head back and forth at the chorus.

While some of the lyrics seemed to make the snooty ponies confused at time, everypony seemed like they were enjoying the music. Even Luna was smiling and clapping along with the beat. Half way to the second chorus, Rim and Vinyl joined in singing.

Allyn took a mini break in the song, at a point he knew would seem awesome if he did it, and grabbed a glass of Champagne and downed it in one go. He then spoke the next part of the song, burped, and pretended that it was an accident on his part and continued on with the song.

"SO RAISE YOUR, aw fuck," Allyn said as he noticed Celestia and the other adults that Luna and him had left behind walk into the colossal living room, and basically went fuck it and lost all control of his body to jamming out before Celestia or somepony else stopped him. He changed to his higher Alto voice, sang into Vinyls mic, jumped off the stage, did knee slides, and literally everything and anything else he damn well felt like doing until the song ended and he was at Celestia's feet.

He looked up to see everybody cheering despite the obvious fact that he used a princess to crash party and take it over. He was ready for being; banned from coming with them again, being sent back to the dungeon, and even banishment.

But he was ultimately dumbfounded when he heard Luna screaming his name in the crowd like a complete fangirl. He stood up just in time to catch Luna as she jumped on him, wrapping him with her arms, legs, and wings and knocking him on his ass. They looked at each other and just laughed, not a single care for anyone who saw them.

Celestia was smiling at the fact that for the first time in over a thousand years, her sister was actually happy to be with another pony. She looked away when she noticed her former student next to her.

"I've never seen Princess Luna this happy," Twilight said, clearly amazed by Allyn's effect on Luna.

"I have once," Celestia said turning her attention back to the two ponies as they talked with the drummer, DJ, stagepony, and mailmare, the six of them laughing as they over acted playing air-guitars, "Though it's been a long, long time since then."

After the party-crashing was over and everybody from Celestia and Luna's Lake house had gone back to the Lake house, Allyn and Luna sat on the roof of the single story Lake house. Luna sat on Allyn's lap as they watched the night sky.

"For the first time in," Luna said, the back of her head on Allyn's chest as he softly ran his fingers through her hair, "We don't even remember when, we had fun today."

"I'm happy for you," Allyn said, after which Luna elbowed him in the side.

"We are serious," she said giggling, "You, you made today much better than we though it was going to be. Especially with convincing us to crash that party." Allyn laughed at that, he was still confused how he managed that one.

They sighed and just enjoyed each others company for a couple minutes before either of them spoke.

"May," Luna started, "May we ask thou a question." She rolled over so they were lying face-to-face. "Would- would you date somepony like us? And you must be honest; you do not have to say yes, but don't say yes just because I'm a princess."

Allyn reached up and pulled her into a deep, sweet, loving, sensational kiss that gave Luna her answer. Neither wanted to break their embrace, the end of the world could happen and neither of them would care. They only broke when they heard Twilight, Derpy, Fluttershy, Pinkie, AJ, and Rarity's combined voices go "Awwww."

The looked over to see Fluttershy, Derpy, Twilight, and Rainbow flying slightly away from the edge of the roof with everypony else standing on the porch looking up at them. The young children were on respected elders' backs sound asleep from playing on the beach most of the day.

"I think you forget, Mr. Flynt," Trixie said, Alois hugging her leg, "We're still half an hour away from town."

Luna rolled over and her and Allyn slid off the roof and said goodnight to each other as everypony went to their homes. Celestia pulled Allyn aside and thanked him for helping Luna conform to modern society. She also said that anywhere in the Everfree he wanted to make a home site, he would only have to clear out the size of land he wanted and she would send help for him to build the dream house he wanted.

"Thank you, your highness," Allyn said with a respectful bow, "I will get on that offer when I am able to. But for the next couple days I'm going to be busy helping around Ponyville and spending some time in Canterlot with my friends."

"You don't need to pick an exact time, Allyn," Celestia said, "You can work on that at any time you are able to, there's no rush."

Allyn thanked Celestia and said goodnight before rejoining with Trixie and Alois and the three of them went home. After they got back to the trailer, Allyn tucked Alois into her own bed and lied down on Trixie's couch, where he had been sleeping since he and Trixie left Las Pegasus.

"Hey Allyn," Trixie called from her bed at the other end of the trailer.

"Yeah, Trixie," Allyn called back as he started to slip into his dream world.

"After you have your dream house built, I know I'm being rather pushy by asking this but, may I stay with you and Alois?"

Allyn turned to look down the trailer toward Trixie, "You didn't have to ask, I was already going to have you stay with us. After all you're part of our make-shift family, aren't you?"

Trixie smiled and thanked him before she turned off a lamp she keeps by her bed and went to sleep. Allyn turned back to his back and took a deep breath before drifting off, trying to get as much sleep for tomorrow.

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Allyn sat on the train towards Canterlot and read about the "Walking on Clouds" spell from a book her borrowed from Twilight. He asked Twilight if Spike could help Alois with accustoming to living in Ponyville and learning how to send letters via Dragon Breath-or however that happens, seeing as Allyn had no idea how it worked-and Trixie was taking the day off from her Alchemy lessons to enjoy the spa with Rarity and Fluttershy. He was planing to meet up with his friends in Canterlot for lunch before he had some drinks with Swiftstrike later tonight, and perhaps pick up a silver lighter with another transmutation circle for Trixie if he had time. Just when he was starting to relax in the red velvet covered cushion and the sound of Fall out Boy's This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, a familiar voice called to him from the seat behind him.

"Hiya Al-erony," the high pitched, pink haired, slightly obese mare said as she peeked her head over.

"Oh, hey Pinkie," Allyn said closing his book and looking up at her, "You on your way to Canterlot for a party or something?"

"Nope," She said without saying anything else.

"Well are you heading up there for some kind of bake off," Allyn said after a few seconds.

"Oh come on Allyn," she said, now somehow in front of him with him noticing how quickly she managed to hop from behind him,, "Just because I live over, work at, and eat a bakery doesn't mean everything I do revolves around baking."

"Oh, Then what are you doing on your way to Canterlot if I may ask?"

"I have absolutely no idea, I'm not even sure how I got on this train." Sometimes Allyn just wanted to see how far he could bash her with an aluminum baseball bat, this was one of those times. "Can I ask you something," She said lowering her tone and leaning in, "I know you are a nice pony and all, but why did you take Trixie in after all she's done to us?"

Allyn was actually shocked for a second, he thought for a second before asking Pinkie outside for a moment. Pinkie looked worried for a second, though Allyn wasn't sure why exactly, then nodded. Allyn led her outside so they were standing in between two train cars and closed the door behind them.

"Sorry for asking you outside," he had to yell over the air rushing by and sound of the train, "I just... Don't want anypony to over hear. Why did I take Trixie as my apprentice? I did it because like Princess Luna, her anger is misdirected wanting. She just wants to be told she is amazing because she was beaten, neglected, and told she was less than garbage as a filly. When she saw how well you seven treated each other, she wanted to have what you guys had; ponies who looked pass her flaws and saw who she was inside. The pony who is sweet and self-confident, who's not afraid to show she's strong but is afraid to be shunned.

"I saw that pony in her, I guess you could say that seeing the positive in anybody is my real talent. Fluttershy could see that in Discord, and, I may sound like a traitor for this, I even think Chrysalis is just misunderstood. All she was doing was trying to be a good ruler for her people and make sure that they were well taken care of. And I know that if the roles were reversed, Celestia or Luna would do the same for their ponies"

Pinkie looked at him like she was about to cry from his words of understanding. She eventually broke out of her shock and wiped a tear or two away before speaking, "Y-you may have a point, but do you even know what she did to Twilight, her brother and Cadance, the rest of us, to Celestia?"

"I know she has caused a lot of harm to a lot of ponies," Allyn said as he watched Canterlot get closer and closer to the front of the train, "And I have no ground to say nice things about her after what she's done to all of you. But maybe she did that as a last resort to protect the Changeling race from extinction. I'd have to say, if I saw Queen Chrysalis walk up to me with a major injury or near death, I would take healing care of her like any other pony. Please Pinkie, I need you to Pinkie Promise not to tell anypony."

Pinkie smiled and did the signature promise with Allyn, Cross their hearts and hope to fly, Shove a cupcake in their eye. The train's whistle blew to indicate that they had arrived in the capital city and to prepare to leave the train for some of the ponies aboard. Allyn looked towards the train station and said goodbye to Pinkie before walking through the door to collect his gear, leaving Pinkie standing against the railing.

"H-he understands my intentions," Chrysalis said, returning to her normal voice instead of having to continue that high pitched hell, "He would help my people instead of treating us like a plague." Chrysalis lowered her head as tears ran down her face from the stallion's words before changing into somepony else and jumping off the train as it stopped.

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Rim, Vinyl, and Octavia sat at inside the Burger Barn closest to the train station and waited for Allyn to show up, though the three of them were getting along just fine without him for the moment. They talked about the Grand Galloping Gala; being invited to it, playing it, what they were going to wear, who they wanted to meet. Allyn walked in and waved over to them followed by ordering some fries and a drink.

"Hey guys," Allyn said as he sat down at their table, "How's things been hanging?"

"Fairly okay, Allon," Tavi said shrugging, "We were talking about the Gala in a few months."

Allyn sat back laughing for a second, "Yeah, Scratch already told me how excited you got when you got your tickets." Rim and Vinyl laughed as Octavia's face turned a bright red from embarrassment before she slapped Vinyl upside the head, causing Vinyl's glasses to fall off and reveal her violet eyes.

"At what point did you tell him that," Tavi said angrily.

"Last night when he crashed that Fancy Pants guy's party me and Rim were playing at," Scratch said as she picked up her sunglasses, "He crashed it with Princess Luna and Rim flew off like a little scaredy foal."

"I flew off thinking I was in deep shit," Rim shot back before Octavia looked at Allyn the same way everypony looked at him six months ago after that prank that landed them in the Royal Dungeons.

"Oh mon Dieu," Octavia said as Allyn casually ate some of his fries, "Please for the love of Celestia, tell me you didn't actually crash a party with Princess Luna."

"I'm just going to leave that for you to determine," Allyn said, "So you're not as mad when I say we completely did."

"SAINT HOMME DE MERDE, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU," Tavi said as she started shaking him back and forth.

Rim and V calmed Octavia down and she released him after a few minutes. Rim eventually sat down and asked Allyn why he was almost late. Allyn apologized and said that he was picking something up for his apprentice as a gift for the hard work she's been doing both in Alchemy training and day to day work around Ponyville. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a small, silver lighter that had the same symbol on it as his gold one did.

"Sort of a gift," Allyn said spinning the silver lighter around between his index finger and thumb, "For completing the first quarter of her studies. I was planning on giving this to her after I get my house built in Ponyville, which I'm planning on having at least move-in ready shortly after G3."

The three ponies looked at each other for a second before looking back at Allyn in confusion.

"You guys know," he said, "GGG? Grand Galloping Gala?"

The three of them figured out what he meant, must not have ever heard it called that before? Vinyl said that it sounds doable, seeing as the gala wasn't until September and said that she's seen a team of ten Earth ponies make a house for a family of ten in under eight weeks. Allyn looked at his watch and said goodbye to his friends before they stopped him to ask where he had to be so quickly.

"Remember the Cider Geyser," Allyn said, "Well I'm meeting this cool dude there for a few drinks in a couple hours and I wanted to check out a movie in between."

"Hey V," Rim said looking at both ladies with a devious smile on his face, "Isn't the Geyser having its monthly 'Ladies Night?'"

"You know what," Scratch said, her and Octavia both gaining devious smiles as well, "It is."

"NO," Allyn said sharply at the trio, "No okay, just NO. You three are not going to fuck with it."

"Oh come on Allon," Octavia said leaning on the table, "What's wrong with a couple of belles juments wanting a couple drinks? That is after all how met the three of us at first."

"I remember," Allyn said, "I also remember how I woke up the next morning. Not saying I did not enjoy that, I'm just saying I remember"

"And what was wrong with the three way that happened between us that night," Vinyl asked leaning next to Octavia. Allyn and Rim gave the two women a look of confusion.

"When the hell did you have a three way with them," Rim asked Allyn.

"While you went to get pizza," Octavia replied.

"And y'all chose to wait six months to tell me that," Allyn said, "Why was that shit not part of the recap of that night? You know what, when I'm not running late we'll have to have a conversation on this, but for now I have to meet Swiftstrike."

"My cousin," Octavia said with shock in her voice, "He's in Canterlot? Ah crap, did he steal your wallet at some point." Allyn gave her a look that said; 'No, I met him on Eharmony.' "Do you know where he is," Octavia continued, "I think I may smack the merde out of him."

"I think he's still on the train here," Allyn tried to remember how long it took to travel from Las Pegasus to Canterlot, "He should be in Canterlot in about an hour or so. Now if you guys don't mind, I have to talk to Celestia about a land permit."

Allyn escaped before his friends could draw him back again and made his way to the castle. After being cleared by the guards outside, he made his way to his destination inside. He walked down the large hallway until he made it to the door he was looking for, knocking lightly before it opened.

Luna seemed shocked to see him at her chamber door, not expecting to see him again so soon. She welcomed him in and asked if he wanted anything. He declined and said he just wanted to drop in and ask her something.

"Is it about the land you would like to obtain," she asked.

"Not really, Your Highness" he said, "I'd like to see the moon rise with you." She blushed at his request and he just smiled like a small child.

"I-is um," she was attempting to speak, "There some reasoning behind that request?"

"I just figure you might feel lonely without somepony watching it with you," he said sitting on her bed, a small smile starting to grow on her face as she nodded. They walked out onto the observatory where Celestia was standing as watched as the sun began to set in the west.

"Oh, Hello Mr. Flynt," Celestia said with cheer in her voice of seeing Allyn and Luna.

Allyn bowed to Celestia, "Good evening your highness. Don't mind me, I just want to watch the changing between Day and Night. The way it happens in my world isn't very interesting."

Luna walked over to her sister and the two of them held their hands out as their horns began to glow in the twilight. Celestia slowly lowered her hands with the sun as Luna raised her hands and the moon. After the sisters were finished, Luna looked back to Allyn whose expression seemed like pure childhood amazement, similar to a young colt watching fireworks for the first time. Celestia and Luna couldn't help themselves but to laugh at Allyn's expression and causing him to blush and stammer out an excuse.

Never the less, he said thanks for allowing him to watch the change and began to walk away. Before he was able to take three steps Luna stopped him and asked why he had to leave so quickly.

"Oh," Allyn said, "A couple of friends of mine are meeting me at a local pub and we're were going to share a few drinks."

"Well we wouldn't want to keep you from friends now would we," Celestia said bowing her head, "Be safe, Mr. Flynt."

Allyn began to walk back down the large hallway to the castle door, but was suddenly stopped when Luna ran up behind him.

"M-may I," Luna tried to speak, "Come and enjoy sharing some drinks with you and your friends?"

Allyn just smiled, "You're a Princess, you can do what ever you'd like. But I would be honored if you do show up. It's The Cider Geyser in out by Starswirl Park."

Luna thanked him and ran towards her chambers saying she'd be there in forty minutes. Ally chuckled and pulled out his phone, asking Vinyl to bring something to the bar when she and Octavia are on their way.

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Allyn walked into The Cider Geyser and waved as he say his friends and Swiftstrike by the bar. He walked up and ordered a Roy Rodgers started talking with the four ponies.

"Swiftstrike I presume," Allyn said holding out a hand to the stallion in the white coat.

"You must be Allyn," Swift said rubbing the back of his head, "First I would like to apologize for what happened when we first met, before I was just down on my luck and I owed some favors to some of the wrong ponies. But I've been working on getting out of that line of work."

"It's cool," Allyn said as he held out a fist bump to Swift, "No prob dude. You've seriously got some sweet skills in fighting and parkour."

"Thanks," Swift replied, returning Allyn's fist bump.

"Hey so I've got a question," Vinyl said, "Why did I have to bring my keyboard when there's a perfectly good piano on the other side of the bar?"

How the hell had Allyn not noticed the baby grand in the back corner the last time he was here... oh wait, he was black-out drunk. Sure enough there was a piano out by a small stage in a dark corner of the bar which Allyn was sure he had never seen there before. Allyn looked to his friends and pointed to the piano with his thumb.

"They bring it out every two or three months for Lady's Night," Rim said swirling the scotch in his glass, "The babe's get half priced drinks while their dates play shitty songs for the other half of the price, and the bar keeps it profit on an even scale."

"How much to play the piano," Allyn asked the mare behind the bar.

"'Bout forty bits a song, Sweets," said the pink haired barmaid in the black crop-top.

Allyn placed the money on the bar and walked over, knowing exactly what song he wanted to play. Allyn began witha fast paced go-over on the keys, then a steady, repeating melody. After a few seconds, he sang the song that he and his dad used to sing together every night when he was a child. Everypony's attention was on Allyn as he sang, occasionally swaying with the tempo or from the alcohol.

The second and third times he reached the choruses, the whole bar joined in singing. Some drunken slurs, others off key, and still others getting the words wrong, but together they made the song it's own. As Allyn approached the end of the song, he turned to face his audience and played the piano with one hand on occasion to emphasize the lyrics.

"And I'm singin' you a song, cause I'm the piano man," he improvised, "Yeah I'm singin' a song tonight. Cause you look in the mood for a melody, and I've got you feeling alright!" He threw himself into the end of the song. Panting after his performance, the roar of applause took over the bar.

"Excellent work, Allyn Flynt," a lone voice said over the crowd, causing the to separate. Luna stood in an evening gown with her dark blue hair tied up in a braid. Everyone in the bar bowed in respect, except Allyn who just held up one hand and said "Buongiorno Principessa."

"W-what brings the Princess of Night to my fine establishment on this evening," Berry Punch said shakily.

"We wished to enjoy the prolific consumption of alcohol," Luna said trying to be regal, but ultimately causing Allyn to chuckle.

"You heard the Princess," Allyn said, standing on the piano seat, "LET'S GET SHIT FACED!"

Allyn dropped down on the seat and began playing We Own the Night. He looked over to Luna and nodded her over to sit next to him. She sat down next to him and she copied his hand positions on the keyboard as he sang. They played as the bar rocked back and forth in drunken joy. Swapping lines during the chorus, they occasionally looked at each other and smiled as they played.

Allyn and Luna almost jumped when Rim, Octavia, Vinyl, and Swiftstrike showed up behind them after the second chorus. Allyn quickly wrote down the next part of the song with his magic and passed it to Vinyl for the four ponies to read. Rim and Vinyl's ruff singing voices started the first two lines while Tavi and Swift's much softer Soprano and Alto respective voices took over, with Rim cutting in at the part about being drunk, until the chorus where where the six of them sang until the end. Allyn took full control of the song during the last few lyrics, never taking his eye off Luna in her breath-taking dress.

For that brief moment, it seemed like they were the only two beings in the whole universe. He looked into her teal, sorrow filled eyes and knew that they were looking straight back at him. It was the slowly growing chant of a bar full of drunk ponies repeating "Kiss, kiss, kiss..." that brought both of them back from their fantasy world.

They looked around as the horde of drunken smiles looked at them waiting for the expected kiss they had been ordering. Allyn and Luna looked at each other and smiled.

"It has been fun hanging with you, Princess," Allyn said, bowing his head as he stood up, "But I'm afraid I must take my leave." He started to wal- okay, hobble- hobble away when Luna's voice called back.

"Call us Lulu," Luna said, "And keep a dream open for us." She winked at him and walked outside into her beautiful night.

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"Of this night my friends, we will not forget," Allyn, Rim, Vinyl, Octavia, and Swift sang as they walked, "Tonight, we own the Night." They drunkenly laughed as they walked Allyn and Swift to the Canterlot Train Station at around 2:30am or so.

The five friends walked into the station and said night to Swift as he walked to the Las Pegasus platform. He looked back at Allyn and said the next time they'd meet, they'd have to have a sparring match. Allyn smiled and held a thumbs up to the Earth Pony.

Allyn started walking towards his platform to head back to Ponyville, but he stopped on the stairs and looked back.

"I'll call you guys when I get my land cleared for my new house," he said pointing at his friends with both hands.

"Well hurry up and head back to Ponyville so you can call us," Rim called out. Allyn smiled and continued up the stairs and got on the 2:40 to Ponyville.

Allyn put his earpuds in and put on the soft piano of "Same Love" to drift off to sleep to. After the third play through and the train finally moving, he slid into the softness of the dream world. Allyn opened his eyes and sat up, the piano still playing in the environment of the open field. He leaned his head back and felt the warmth of the dream sun on his face, the wind in his copper, brown hair, the smell of the mountain flowers in the field and the pines surrounding the meadow .

He stood up and turned to face the woman in the royal blue, moon patterned sundress. She brushed the few strands of her light blue hair out of her eyes and smiled. He held out his left hand to her and they danced to the piano music. They looked each other in the eyes as the danced in the grass, the grass tickling the bottom of their bare feet. He pulled her on to his chest as they fell backwards onto the grass, embracing each other in a loving kiss. Their tongues dancing in each others mouths as he had his hands over her body and her wings.

They broke away and looked each other in the eyes, she smiled and rolled over and they watched the clouds pass in the blue sky. She looked back at him, his short brown hair, his deep blue eyes, the lack of his cobalt horn. He was still the man that held her heart, but he seemed so different from how she had seen him in his dreams before.

"So this is how thou really looks," Luna asked.

"In my world," he started, "Yes. Normally humans don't have teal or purple colored hair or hair that can magically flow on its own."

"All the months we've seen thee, we have never seen thee like this. Thou eyes are beautiful."

"I thank thee for thine complement, but thou eyes are evermore beautiful. You are beautiful, never let anyone tell you other wise."

Luna snuggled up to Allyn and nuzzled the crook of his neck. They lied in the grass and spent what felt like hours until Allyn finally asked a question he had thought of for a while.

"Hey Lulu," Allyn started, "You've been in my dreams a lot, but what do you dream about?"

She didn't know how to react, should she ignore him as she has done to everypony else who asked, or did she want to show him. No, she trusted him more than most ponies she had met, but she wasn't ready to show him the sorrow of her dreams when his were so joyful. She shock her head to him and looked him in his cooling, ocean blue eye which gave a generous smile back.

"I understand," he said, "If, or when, you want to show your dreams, I don't need to see them now."

He moved his head so both of theirs were resting against each other. She felt like melting right there in his arms. She stretched her wings out, turned over, and rested her head on his chest. They stayed in that position until Allyn woke.