Surprise Surprise

There was a knock at the door. My mind froze. The first thing that came to mind was that the Alicorn from before had returned to take me away. Then the door opened. I never thought I would be relieved to see Chrysalis's face again.

"Oh, it seems you two are having fun. Tried to steal my husband while I was gone Luna? I guess I could expect this from a witch like you." Chrysalis said.

"Oh just because you haven't been able to get your hoofs on him doesn't mean that I'm stealing him from you." Luna replied to her.

Chrysalis walked up to her and stared her in the face. They were both waiting for one of them to do something. I stepped in just in time.

"How about this, why don't we all just get our baths and get to bed? Its been a long day and I bet your both tired." I said trying to diffuse this bomb before it got any closer to exploding.

The girls agreed and left to get their baths. I left to go and get mine. I hopped in the shower and quickly got a bath. I allowed all the pain of the day to be swept down the drain. As soon as I hopped out I grabbed some clothes and put them on. Didn't want any of the girls to catch me naked, there would be no telling what they would do, so I made sure the door was closed. After I had gotten my clothes on I switched the light off in my room and got into bed. The bed seemed cold and empty without somebody else in it. I wished Chrysalis wasn't here so me and Luna could have some time alone. I tried to go to sleep but found it impossible. I could not get that Alicorn out of my mind. Why did she say I was her husband and why did she keep calling me Aroc? These questions swirled around in my head and refused to let me sleep. Then I heard the door open. I shut my eyes to make it seem like I was asleep. I herd hoof steps walk up to the side of my bed.

"Alex? Baby are you awake?" I heard a sweet voice ask, it was Luna's.

"Yea, I am." I said.

I opened my eyes and nearly leaped out of my skin. Chrysalis was standing there. She had used her changeling abilities to copy Luna's voice.

"Good impression right?" she asked.

"Never, do that again." I said.

I was still laying in the bed, just sitting up and on the other side. Chrysalis crawled in and laid down next to me. I tried to back up but if I went any farther I would be in the floor. She laid on her back and looked up at me.

"Is it okay if I have a kiss, Alex?" she asked.

"No." I said simply.

"Oh come on! I've come all this way and Luna's already got to kiss you, don't I deserve at least one?" she asked.

She did have a good point. She did go through a lot to get this close to me and the least I could do was give her a little kiss.

"Fine. But just a quick one." I said.

I leaned in and kissed her. When I tried to pull back she followed me and we both fell in the floor. I banged my head into the hard wood flooring. I looked up and Chrysalis was on top of me(how does it always end up like this?). She was just looking at me.

"Alex, did you know that changelings feed of of the love of others, right?" she asked.

"I'm probably not going to like where this is going, will I?" I asked.

"I only want one thing right now." she asked.

"What?"

"Please, love me like you would Luna, if only for tonight." she said.

I was stunned. Did this mean she was giving up? Well, I had no idea, but if loving her for one night would get her to leave this honeymoon forever, then it was worth it. I sat up and kissed her. At first she was surprised, but then got used to it. I pushed her on her back and continued kissing her. I pulled back from her and looked into her deep green eyes. She looked back and knew that I wasn't enjoying this. She knew that I loved Luna and nobody else. She gave me a look that said she understood. I stood up and she stood up as well. She walked out of my room without a word. I moved back to my bed and got in. I was exhausted and ready to force myself to go to sleep if I had to. Good thing I did not have to. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was out like a light, even though that light kept getting turned on and off during the night. I was being plagued by nightmares of the unknown Alicorn taking me away and never letting me go. I would snap awake in a cold sweat. Then the dreams stopped. I finally got to sleep. Then what must have been five minuets later, I was being shaken awake by Luna.

"Wake up Alex! Hurry up! I have a big plan for us today. Were going to go to casinos, markets, museums, you name it, well will be seeing it!" she said.

"Let me guess. Chrysalis will be joining us in this little excursion into the city?" I asked.

"Actually, no. I drugged a drink and gave it to her. She will be asleep for a while, dreaming dreams that I dare not mention." she said.

She told me we should get going. I pulled on a black shirt and black pants and my signature white hoodie. I quickly ran to my bathroom and tamed my hair. It had gotten longer than normal so I cut it down to size with a convenient pair of scissors. When I was done I ran back and met Luna in the living room. She told me to follow her, that a carriage was waiting for us. We went back down to the lobby and walked out the front door, and sure enough, there was a carriage waiting for us. I felt a little uneasy based off of my previous experience with carriages, but got in it anyway. The carriage(pulled by two guards) drove off into the inner parts of the city. The first thing we went to visit was a museum of Equestria. They had things from all parts in the past. There were statues of all the great leaders of Equestria and a ruined statue of one of Equestria's first founder. I stared at it for a long time. Something about it was bugging me. It looked like the Alicorn that kidnapped me. I quickly pushed the thought from my head. I had no idea how old Celestia was but seemed like she had been around for a while. But this Alicorn must have been around for thousands of years, maybe more, she must have been dead by now. Luna was calling me from another exhibit. I rushed off to find her. She led me around to a few other places and then noticed something was wrong with me.

"Are you alright, Alex? You look like you just saw a ghost." she said

"Its fine, I'm okay. I just had a funny feeling in my stomach for a second that's all." I told her.

"Well, if you need to talk to me about anything, don't hesitate to say it. I'm your wife after all, that's what we are supposed to do." she said.

It felt good that I had someone on my side with this. That alicorn was probably still out there. I would have to watch myself to make sure I didn't have another confrontation with her.

We left the museum and got back into the carriage so we could be taken to our next destination. Luna said we would be going to a casino next. We pulled up to the "Hoof and Horn" casino. It was enormous with flashing lights and looked like something straight out of Vegas. We both walked in, even though I was under 18, and split up. Luna said she would be trying her luck at the slots and gave me a bag and said to trade what was in there for some chips or tokens. I looked in and saw it was packed full of gems. I guess this was their currency here. I walked up to the trading corner and asked for the chips. I gave the pony the gems and he gave me the chips. The first place I was going to head to was a poker table. Back when I was in the human world, poker was a big thing for me. I used to practice all the time and would win every game I played. My friend from school once said that as soon as we had the money we would be going to Vegas and winning big at the table. I finally found a table with an open slot and asked to get dealt in. The table was playing Texas Holdem, one of my personal favorites. The dealer dealt the cards. We all laid in our bets and the game began. The dealer laid out the first three cards. They were an ace, king, and a ten. The cards I had were a jack and a queen. I couldn't believe it. I was already going to win. I placed in about half the chips I had and the other players matched it with no hesitance. These guys were good, I could tell, they probably trained by some of the best gamblers known in this world, but nothing beats a home grown champ.

Finally all the cards were on the table, time to show what we had. I had placed a good majority of what I had in the pot and there was a large amount. The first pony had a pair of aces. The next had a pair of kings. The next had nothing, he was bluffing the entire time. The last pony had two pair. Then they all looked at me. I laid down my cards and surprised them all.

"Straight." I said simply.

They all looked at me like I had the word stupid written across my forehead. These were some of the best gamblers in Manehatten an I had just took their money. I smirked at them. We continued playing until I had tripled what I had, twice! That's right. Six times as much as I had. I left the table and went back to exchange what I had. The man gave me six bags of gems and I stuffed them in my hoodie pocket. I walked through the slots and found Luna laying on the floor with an empty bucket that I guess once had tokens in it. I walked up to her and asked her what the problem was.

"I lost everything, Alex. My sister is going to be so mad with me." she said and shuddered at the thought of what her sister was going to do to her.

"Its okay, your sister will not have to know." I said pulling out the bags of gems I had in my pockets.

Luna looked at me in amazement. She asked if I really won all that and I told her I won big at the poker table. I told her we should probably go before one of us gets a gambling addiction.

We strolled out of the casino and Luna's stomach growled.

"I guess we shall be getting something to eat?" I asked.

She looked at me with a look that said "you better believe it". We boarded the carriage and told them to take us to a nice restaurant. Apparently that was not hard because we only moved for about five minuets. We got out and walked into a restaurant that nearly made me pass out. It looked almost exactly the same as the one I took Maria to that night. All the memories came flooding back. All the pain from back then. I tried shaking it from my head but it refused to leave. We were immediately seated next to a window. We told the waiter what we wanted to eat and he left to place the order.

"Alex, there is something I need to talk to you about. It is very important." Luna said.

My first thought was that this was bad news, that she was leaving me or she thought this marriage was not right or something. I braced myself for what she had to say.

"The thing is, well, I was wondering, um-" she said but I cut her off telling her to spit it out.

"Well, the thing is, I want to have a child with you."