Love is a hurricane

"Your battle skills sorely lack.  I've been hurt more in a hyena attack."  However, Opa was deeply moved by Night's commitment to protect her.  "But my friend you have faced, so he has by me replaced."  Judging by his rage, she moved to observe in case she was needed.

The sword that was flung from the stallion grip came down like a windmill. Before it hit the ground, Night caught it in his hoof and brandished it at the pony. "I knew letting her go alone was a bad idea, but I couldn't figure out why. Now I know." The pony got up onto his hooves and tossed his cloak, revealing a deep green coat with a deeper green mane.(We'll call him 'Green')

Green turned and stared at Night with those crazed eyes. His grinned. "So what the master said is true, target the slut and the beast will come running." Night froze in anger. Then, in a whisper, he asked.

"What did you say?"

"What? Do you have cotton in your ears? I said, 'Target the slu-" He couldn't finish due to the hoof being slammed into his face.

From the hit, Green bounced twice before righting himself and looked at Night, who was ready to kill anything. "Slut? Slut?! SLUT?! YOU DARE CALL SOMEPONY AS BEAUTIFUL AND KIND AS HER A 'SLUT?!?!?!" He dropped the sword, wanting this to not end TOO quickly, and charged, ready to kill.

"Not only have you a lame attack, but in manners you surely lack."  She uses one of her forehooves to kick a grapefruit sized rock at Green's hind knee.

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The rock hit Green's knee and he hit the ground. Or rather, he WOULD have, if Night hadn't grabbed him by the throat and ran on his hind hooves, dragging Green's face through the dirt and rocks. A little know fact about Night, because of his missions, he has fought many enemies, but also made many allies. One such ally is a minotaur who taught Night how to fight on two legs, freeing up his forelegs for more deadly combat. As he dragged Green, who's face was getting cut up, he came up to a tree and threw Green at it. Green's back hit the tree hard enough to crack it, but before he could fall from it, Night was on him again. Still standing on two legs, he started punching Green at a horrifying speed. He left nothing spared, not even 'down there'. Night didn't stop, even as his body pleaded, begged, and screamed for rest. His eyes held a look of pure hate, wanting nothing, but the death of Green, and his fangs were bared, ready to be used if he desired.

"That Night is surely a piece of work," she sighed quietly, "I've never seen such a fierce berserk."  She was more concerned about how he would act after his enemy was dead than what he was planning to do to his foe.  Opa was no stranger to severe violence and bloodshed, after all, and it was at least part of the reason she was in no hurry to go back home even if others from her tribe somehow found their way back.

Night stopped his attack, only to tear Green from the now destroyed tree. He threw him to the ground and grabbed his throat to pull him close. "I'm going to kill you. You made the mistake of threatening and insulting Opa. Had it been me you attacked, you would have lived, but not anymore. You deserve a fitting fate and I know just the thing." He then broke all four of Green's legs, hearing him scream, then dragged him to the forest and threw him deep into it. soon, he returned from the forest and back to Opa, Green's screams of agony being heard as he was eaten alive by Timberwolves. When Night stood before Opa, he felt sadness within him and it showed. "Can you ever forgive me? Had I not left you alone, you wouldn't have been attacked, and you wouldn't have had to see me like...that." He lowered his head, too ashamed to look her in the eye.

Catching up to the now one sided battle just ending with the new pony's death,blitz felt sadness that his friend was reduced to killing again. "Hope he was a crazed psychopath that was after Opa,or else i don't know what to think." Blitz said as he closed to the two.

"Oh Night, you should not fret.  You're hardly the worst I've seen yet," she said as she moved closer and placed her neck over his, "While I was but a filly... oh, this will probably sound silly... but you should have heard my cries... as hyenas tore apart my father before my eyes... A warrior disobeyed the chief... I cannot stand to see his grief... but he was punished because he stopped to shield my life... the chief banished him and kept me from being his wife... so what I've seen is not so bad... compared to the sadness that I have had... But that is the terrible price of war... so I can stand to see a little more..."

Night cried in relief and nuzzled her. He pulled back and, with a little fear in his eyes, confessed. "Opa, I know we have only met a few hours ago, but I can't help thinking they way I have been about you. When we were apart, it felt as if my whole being was in agony. In order to not tear down the town looking for you, I pushed my body beyond the breaking point and kept going. But now that I have felt you on my fur and skin, I feel whole again. No, that's not right, I feel whole for the first time in my life. I may have loved Silver greatly, but I feel a greater love for you. Without you, I'm broken. Please, will you stay with me, as my mate?"

"For you I could give my life, so I would be honored as your wife," she replied as she nuzzled Night's ear, "as long as I have you here, I feel there's nothing that I should fear."

Night nuzzled her back, wrapping a hoof around her in a hug, and whispered. "Thank you, my love. I can't describe the joy I'm feeling right now. I swear that I will always be there for you." He pulled back and smiled sheepishly. "I'm ashamed to admit that while I did love another pony, my feelings weren't returned, so I'm rather new at this. I know the basics, but...." He gulped a nervous knot in his throat as he stared into Opa's beautiful amber eyes.

"I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I am also new to it," she replied with a blush, her voice coming in a rush, "As a spellsinger and fire dancer, the chief didn't take me for a prancer.  He kept me for my song and spell, or at least that's what i could tell."  She looked down as she continued, her cheeks crimson hued.  "So I was never wed... nor have I been bred."  She scuffled the ground with her hoof hoping not to look aloof.  "But with you I'd like to learn, and hope my love you shall not spurn."  She gulped hard as she looked back into his eyes, her words failing as she tries.  "So as long as you wish to be with a mare such as me, then I shall rejoice to stay here with you along the way."

"Ookay,I'ma repeat my self here,NO WAY I'M BEST STALLION." Blitz said as he started heading towards town "But do remember to invite me to the bachelor party." he said turning his head a little as he then continued.

Night just chuckled at Blitz as he left. Then he remembered something he could do. "Opa, I want do something, something that will bound us together. If you will allow it, we can start." He asked while still looking into her eyes.

"Just tell me what I must do, and I shall gladly do it with you," she replied as she sighed.

"You must know that I'm not just a guard, I'm what's known as a Lunar Wolf. We wolves serve Princess Luna as her guardians of the night. As such, we are more powerful at night than we are in the day. But what I'm about to ask you is one of the many blessing of the princess. If a wolf finds one who is to be their mate, we perform a blood ritual. It will bind us together to where we will 'feel' each other when we are close enough. It is a simple ritual, but it does tend to make those who do it rather.....stimulated, for lack of a better word, so we may end up...well, you know." Night was blushing so hard at this point, that his entire coat turned from black to red.

"Oh this is such a joyous day.  Almost too much to say."  She looked deep into Night's eyes as she spoke with more happiness and enthusiasm than she had in a long time.  "I have sung many a tune to the power of the moon.  This Princess Luna I should meet.  She sounds like one that I would greet."  She stepped up to nuzzle his neck again.  "And rituals are blood are not new to me, so nothing scary I expect to see."  Turning to wave her flank near his face, she added with a wink, "and as to where this all might go, I have a feeling I might know."  She blushed hard herself as if she just realized what she said aloud, glad that there was no crowd.

Night smiled, but added to his explanation. "There's something else you should know. The Lunar Wolves are more like a clan in their own right. I have been with them for some time now, but I have fought my way through and defeated the former Alpha, or as you would call him, 'the Chieftain'. And according to Lunar Wolf code, I am the new Alpha. I only tell you this because you should know all, and I mean ALL, about me if we join. I wouldn't do any less for you."

Opa turned about to look Night in the eyes as she said, "Forgive me if I sound too bold, but I am glad that you have told.  There is so much I wish to know that my soul just seems to glow."

"And I you, but brace yourself, my eternal love. For when we bond, you will see all my memories, a rare few are good. However, I will not see yours, for you must tell me your past and story. I don't know why it's like that, but it is. Many of my wolves have told me about this many times, so prepare, you may not like what you will see." Night walked up to the door to his home and held it open for Opa, a pained look on his face as he spoke.

"If I can help and share your pain, then I surely shall not refrain."  She followed him closely, but paused at the door.  "Perhaps there's something that I don't see, but normally you should go before me."

Night gave a weak, but firm smile. "I'm just being a gentlecolt. If you're going to be my wife, then this your home too." He moved fast and planted a kiss on her cheek, him blushing after.

Not used to being treated with such deference or respect,  she awkwardly if not slowly steps through the doorway.  Without even thinking about it, she swishes her tail back and forth as well as waving her flank back in forth opposite to the swish of her tail.  Then she suddenly takes three steps forwards and turns to face Night again with a deeper blush.  "Oh you are such a dear to make me feel so welcome here."

Night's blush couldn't get any hotter at that little show, as with the others. He smiled and went in after her. He lead her to the couch and sat down, motioning for her to sit with him. When she was seated, he asked. "Are you ready?"

"Oh I can surely see that I'm as ready as I can be."

Night nodded and used his fangs to bite down on his foreleg, drawing blood. He then held it out to Opa with a strange request. "Drink."

"I suppose if we were brothers of the blood to be, it wouldn't be a little strange to me.  But since this seems important to you, then this thing I shall do."  She leans forward to place her lips over the cut and suck blood into her mouth.

Night could feel his blood leaving his body, but something else was happening to it. He could feel a heat in his chest as she drank, one that spread throughout his body. A glance at Opa told him she was feeling it too.

She continues to drink the blood, since she has no idea when she's supposed to stop.  But her breath through her nose quickened along with the beating of her heart.  She also became sweaty as she continued.

Night sighed. "That's good." Opa stopped and sat upright. Night then grabbed a knife from a drawer in the night stand next to the couch. He placed the knife at his neck before speaking. "What you just did prepared you for the wave of memories so that it doesn't overwhelm you. Now comes hard part." He slit the side of his neck and drew more blood. "Now you must drink again, but this time, you will see everything. My past, my happiness, my sorrow, my hate, everything."

Although she hesitates for just a fraction of a moment, she leans forward and seals her lips over the neck wound to drink that blood as well.

Night could feel it as soon as she began. He was taken back to when his parents were killed by that psycho pony. He saw how his father was killed with just one slash, but his mother wasn't so lucky as she was tortured. After she was killed, Night, at the age of six, made his first kill, by sinking his fangs into the monster's neck. He was then taken to when he was drafted into the gang at 13, doing dishonorable thing just so he could live, till he killed a member that was going to mug a mare and her foal. After that he went back to the hideout and killed the head and left for the road. At 17 he was accepted into the guard and served for three years till Princess Luna came back, then he was made a Lunar Guard. He continued till he was invited to join the Lunar Wolves, where he soon became the new Alpha. He then saw Silver and remembered how he felt about her. He then saw his stay in Ponyville and how much he changed and all that he did while living here. He knew Opa was seeing the same things as he was. He could only hope she wasn't too frightened.

Opa's eyes snapped wide open, and suddenly glowed with the white light of magic.  It was something that never had happened before:  magic without a song.  Perhaps it was the effects of the blood, or what she was feeling at the time, but some of her memories fed back along the blood to Night.  Her earliest memory was being presented to the Chieftain by her biological mother.  Something just told her the Chieftain was in fact her own father.  What he said to his mother made no sense at that time, but now that she was grown, his words became painfully clear:  "ANOTHER MARE?!  Dammit woman, I need SONS!  If you weren't my first wife, I'd feed you to the hyenas myself!"  The next memory is her mother teaching Opa her first spell song.  A simple tune that went, "How married I wish to be,  Let a mighty warrior choose me."  When she was older, she remembers lining up with other mares as visiting warriors come to choose wives to take home with them, but when the chief stops in front of her first, he knocks her to the ground with his hoof, plants one hoof on her stomach and another on her chest, and snarls, "Damn you!  Go back to your mother!"  The last word is spat like a curse.  She rolls to her feet and flees to her mother in tears.  Then the terrible day her father was torn apart by hyenas comes to mind.  A brave warrior forsakes his chieftain just to protect her, a mare even her father would have deemed expendable but for her growing skill with spell songs.  The new chieftain banishes the warrior, accusing before the whole tribe of cowardice and being a failure as a warrior.  He strikes her because he's a zebra, not an okapi like most others.  She never sees him again.  While she performs dances and spells for the tribe, her heart seems empty, because her mother died of a broken heart not long after her father.  The remaining wives are taken by the new chieftain, but most of their children are forced to fend for themselves.

The two broke off as the memories were complete. Night immediately pulled Opa into a strong hug as his fangs grated against each other and he cried tears of anger, at her father for the way he treated her, at the hyenas that made her life even worse, and at himself for not being there for her when she needed him most. As enraged as he was, he could still 'feel' that she was in a battle of her own.

Opa returned the hug, bawling as tears overflowed her eyes, overwhelmed at the sorrow, rage and misfortune of Night's life.  She finally knew someone who knew as much about childhood pain as she did.  Her wailing could probably be heard well into the streets around the house.  If she weren't being held up, she may well have collapsed to the floor, but she was leaning hard against Night as she cried.

Night held her tight as he cried. "Regardless of what you say, if I had been there I would have killed him myself." He whispered, referring to her father.

"If I had been with you from the start, I might have mended a broken heart," she sobbed back, "But you cannot do much for me.  The past is gone as it should be.  But I am here with you now, and perchance to comfort you somehow.  But you are more than I deserve;  I say that without reserve.  I can see what your life has meant, but I can't help but be a disappointment."  She is overwhelmed by sobbing and choking tears again, burying her nose against Night's mane.

Night pulled back to stare in her eyes, his own showing anger-love. "NO!!! You are not a disappointment!! You are the greatest thing that has happened to me!! The pain that I've felt may had lessen over the years, and my heart and life had started to heal when I met Silverspeed, but I have never met a mare with the passion you have!!! The fact that you suffered such a cruel father and still be as beautiful and kind as you are is a blessing in itself!!! You're the world to me and I will never let anything, or anyONE, hurt you again!!! On my parents' souls, this I swear!!!" He then pulled her into a deep kiss, wanting to erase all her pain.

She returns the kiss without holding back, now that the two were joined by measures beyond the understanding of most mortals.  The tears from her eyes almost magically transform from tears of pain and sadness to tears of joy.  She doesn't even notice when a wound like his appeared on both her leg and neck, her blood spilling forth like his own had.  The wounds, however, seemed to glow with a light of magic even as the magic faded from her eyes.  It seemed for the moment that their bodies were synced with each others.

Night never felt so strong. It's as if all his life he had been crippled and now he wasn't. He pushed his tongue into her mouth, feeling every inch, and could fell her tongue fighting back.

She felt her heart swell like she never had before.  Her tongue (which was silly long for her size) probed his mouth as eagerly has his had done within her mouth.  She even felt confident enough to try and push him onto his back and settle on top of him.  In her eagerness, she sprinkled some of her own blood over him as she did so.

Night didn't pull back when he felt her long tongue. In fact, he kissed even harder and held her while on his back. He could smell her blood as it flowed, but peeking open an eye showed him that she was healing as fast as he was. He reached a hoof down a gripped a flank cheek while pushing his tongue harder.

Opa moaned into his mouth as they continued to kiss, her flank squirming as he grabbed it.  She felt in her heart was willing to go all the way with him.

Night pulled back from the kiss, but her tongue was having trouble getting back into her mouth. It looked like they were connected by a thick noddle. After Opa got her tongue back, Night brushed a hoof across her cheek. "I think we should continue this in my bed."

"I would be honored to go to your bed, and ask when we can be wed?"

Night smiled, a few tears in his eyes. "We'll tell everypony in the morning. For now, I think that you've earned some serious loving." He smirked as he carried her in his forehooves to his bed.