Lovers under the moon

The sounds of the forest disappeared as the pony drifted off to sleep, catching one last glimpse of the filly that lay next to it, in its mind all was dark until noise began to be audible.

The thick metal door opened with a groan, as the four stallions it took to open it let it go, it swung the rest of the way and eased into a creaking halt, the largest of the stallions being the leader walked ahead, the other two equal in size took hold of their bound prisoner, and the smallest, a pegasus, picked up a chain wich led to a collar that bound together the rest of the chains and the straight jacket that held the prisoner, and then took off and flew while draging the chain ahead of his companions.

The four stallions led their prisoner to the center of the room and began taking off the chains and straight jacket that binded it, they worked at their task as the pegasus began bringing over to them things that looked like plugs all with some rather thick needles protruded from their tips, the two stallions began binding the prisoner with a new straight jacket, one that seemed to fit it tighter, made of a black material instead of the convetional white cloth ones, this had on it a series of metal rims that seemed to be parallel some on the forelegs, some on the chest, and some on the back. mainly along the spine the other two being on the shoulder blades, the only one rim out of place was one above the heart.

The two stallions kept at their tedious task, while without them realizing, their prisoner began to regain consciousness, "Hurry damn it!" shouted the earth stallion to the right, "I don't want to be near this thing when it wakes up!" he finished.

"Oh, because I do!?" spat the earth stallion on the left with sarcasm so thick an answer wasn't even needed, "just hurry up and finish fastening this damn thing!"

A chuckle was heard from above them, "that's some damn good luck for me to be able to fly, now aren't you jealous?"

"Juat hurry up you idiots," shouted the leader, "because if that damned to Tartarus thing wakes up, we're all dead, it'll rip both of your troats out and no matter how high you fly, it'll jump with its forelegs still bound and rip you in half, then it'd come after me, without even giving me a chance to use magic," said the large unicorn as he removed his cap with his magic, "hurry up and plug the beast in."

As the stallion finished his sentence, the prisoner groaned, all four stallions hearts skipped a beat as their faces turned to the prisoner, the two earth stallions hurried up and finished fastening the prisoner, the pegasus flew off to get some large chain with clamps, as the pagasus made it to the prisoner, the unicorn then lifted it to wards the clamps placing the smallest on its neck, the largest on its waist and the other two on its hind hooves.

They all felt with barely enough ease to take a breath, the pegasus then began placing all the plugs with the large knife-like needles where they belonged, the only one missing was the one above the heart, the unicorn now came close to the prisoner levitating that last plug beside himself within his grey magic.

"It would seem thou are awake now lord," said the stallion with thick sarcasm that when he did his little faux bow and swooshed the plug he could have cut it, "please have mercy if it was us, thou humble servants whom have disturbed thou slumber," said the stallion as he raised his head showing a crooked smile so smug he didn't seem to be able to fake his intentions like he did with his voice, "we just wanted to accommodate our lord to his new abode," finished the stallion as he swung his hoof in an arch as he "presented the chamber to the prisoner and when he finished the arch he flung the last plug onto the rim where it belonged on and as soon as the plug clicked on all the cables began to glow a light blue and lights all over the chamber lit up, the walls being shown to be white like the ceiling and the floor being grey concrete.

Pain began to spread from the heart of the prisoner while it groaned not being able to speak just yet due to the numbness on its body.

Slowly the large pony began to wake up in the shielding the Phoenix Bath, the dark flames began to disappear allowing it to see what woke it, the young filly was shaking, the large pony nudged at her and noticed she was sobbing while holding onto her chest.

"DAMMIT HEART!" shouted the large pony as it got up and quickly picked up the young filly and flew up into the night sky, when the pony thought the height was enough it held the filly outwards pointing her at the moon and letting the cold night air surround her, "the pain isn't there Heart, you were just seeing a dream like your mom can!" said the large pony, relaxing now that it felt the filly had stopped sobbing, "that's right Heart, it was only a dream, only that it was a bad dream, MY dream," finished the pony pulling the filly into a hug while allowing her to keep looking at the moon.

"Calm down already?" asked the pony, not really needing an answer since it could fell her tiny frame breathing with lots more ease.

"Yeah, thanks Dad, sorry I meant Mom, or, I, well, I ..." sputtered the filly while realizing the mistake she was often scolded for.

"You know what its fine, call me 'Dad', it'll be better to avoid this confusion, and it'll be better than you not knowing what gender I am," said the pony as 'he?' got no response, "plus you've already got a mom."

"But," said the filly her gaze still fixated on the moon, "I call her Mama for a reason, you said she's nice and beautiful and kind ," the pony only nodded in responce, "but even though you're strong and brave and angry, sometimes you're nice and beautiful and kind too, that's why I also call you 'Mom' and not 'Mama' like her, you're like a mom and dad combined," finished the filly nonchalantly as the pony began to fly down.

"Alright you can call me both but since you've got a mom try to call me 'Dad' more, but you're free to call me either when we're alone, though when we're with other ponies you have to call me what I tell you," he finished as he set her down, she nodded, "we have to keep our stories straight, and its enough that you can't change without help yet."

"Anyway, we might as well get and early start now that we're up, also we need to go get our things since that 'thing' attacked us way back there, we're still someway from Ponyville and we need better hurry."

With that they took off, as they walked the filly, 'Heart' kept her gaze on the tall pony as he led the way, "what is it Heart?" the filly snapped her from her trance, "you've been burning a hole in the back of my head, what did you want to say?"

"It's just."

"Yes," said the pony as he was already used to the filly and her stalling, "go ahead and ask."

"I just hope you won't get mad," the pony didn't reply, only nodded, "what was that dream?"

"Like I said, it was a bad dream, all my dreams are bad, so please remember to avoid going in them if you can, I've warned you before."

"I know Dad, sometimes I can't help it;" the filly went quiet for a while, but eventually decided to try and dig deeper, "but when was that Dad, why'd those ponies hurt you like that?"

The pony stopped and sat in his haunches, "look Heart, there's a lot you don't yet understand, but I'll tell you this much, that was a long ago, before I met you and while I still talked your mom, and after that I didn't see her for a while, that's what hurt me the most, now forget about what those ponies did you me, it didn't even hurt."

As he tried to give her his most reassuring smile she glomped him, easily taking him down since he wasn't standing, "I know, my daddy's the strongest, but I still don't like you getting hurt," with that she walked ahead of him to not face him, knowing he wasn't keen on showing her much affection, eventually he passed her and nudged her mane, she knew she was of the hook, with a light blush she hurried after him.