A Good Heart

Tai just stated for a few more seconds before he started to freak out.

"Oh, god Autumn what did you do? Are you sick?! Did something do somthing to you?! Did you hur-

He was quickly interupted by Autumn who was desperately explaining that all she did was touch the shiny green gem on the dresser.

Luna, who had walked into the room, to see what happened, also became alarmed at what she saw, but upon noticing the green gem, she immediately took it in her magic ad shattered it with an angry scowl.

"This should not have been here, let alone still real." She growled.

Becoming more concerned and frightened by the second, Tai asked her what it was.

"Its the nightmare gem, the very same gem that almost swallowed me in darkness and hate, I can't imagine what it would do to  a filly, tell me dear Autumn, did you hear any voices after coming in contact with it?" Asked Luna who was now also wearing a concerned expression.

"Yes, they were saying that I am weak, and that I don't deserve to have any parents" she said starting to tear up.

Tai immediately went back to a fatherly instinct and gave her a warm hug, calming her down almost entirely before reassuring her that he would never leave.

Luna then started to closely inspect Autumn, before a few minutes later concluded that the gem had not been near her long enough and did not cause any damage other than a mental scar, and the only thing it really did was making her more powerful, thus alicorn filly.

Tai still had to make absolute sure that she was alright, which was understandable considering he had made a promise.

"So.... she is okay then right?" He questioned Luna who was now giving an excited look.

Luna had realized what all this just did after confirming no dark magic had corrupted her. Then as answered.

"Yes, she is more than alright, but do you know what this means?" She asked, her voice raising a bit on the last part.

Tai sat their for a moment and thought before the sudden realization dawned on him.

"No way. No Way! NO WAY!!" he started screaming happily as he rushed his filly onto his back.

"I can be a real dad now" he exclaimed happily at the sudden change of his luck.

Autumn just sat there with a confused look on her muzzle and asked what was going to happen.

Luna then explained that she was now an alicorn as well so that meant she would never die of natural cause.

"And. She continued. When me and your new daddy here get married, which by the way Tai I was not kidding when I said I was holding you to that, you will be a princess"

Autumn could not believe her ears, or anything else, at that moment.

"Is this a dream?" She asked now with a fear in her voice, dreading the answer.

"Yes" Luna replied only getting a look of disbelief from Tai and Autumn in response before giggling madly on the floor.

"GOTCHA" she yelled as she stood back up to get bombarded by Autumn, and Tai's happy faces.

The three then left their tower and went down to dinner, where they saw celestia and Tanner at the table, sitting across from each other. Celestia was being elegant as usual, and Tanner still had a pink muzzle which made him look extremely stupid.

As they approached the table, Tanner noticed them and waved to them before seeing Autumn and started choking on his salad.

Tai quickly put Autumn on the ground and rushed to Tanner to help him, which was hard considering the hooves.

"Come on, COME ON DAMIT!" he yelled as he was desperately trying to get the food out of his throat by giving him the, anti-choke...... thing (whatever the damn maneuver is called)

Eventually, Tai gave one huge push and the food popped right out, he then looked at him and smirked.

"What the hell would you do without me shit-head?" He commented slyly as he helped Autumn back onto his back.

Tanner still just looked at Autumn with wide eye's and a shocked expression.

Celestia too, after the slight panic-attack she had when Tanner was choking, had noticed that Autumn was now an alicorn as her pupils started to slowly shrink.

"Oh my, that's not good" was all she said while still staring at Autumn.

While everyone in the room besides Tai and Luna, Autumn felt really scared because she has always been shy, but she never was around Tai, she doesn't know why but she is.

Tai decided to break the silence and explain everything.

"Okay, can we like, not, stare at my filly all night, I'm mean ya, she turned into alicorn, AHH, big deal, I mean its not like me and Tanner did the same thing a couple thousand years ago. He stated with extreme sarcasm in his voice.

All the ponies in the room besides Luna, was now staring at him, instead of Autumn.

Luna then started to actually explain what happened.

After she had explained what happened, and received a few concerned looks from celestia, she assured that everything was alright

Afterwards, they all sat in the dinning hall, ate, and went their desperate ways.

After Tanner and Celestia went to bed, the three night dwellers Autumn, Tai, and Luna, all started to wonder about the castle, getting Autumn familiar with it, along with reinstating a few of Tai's memories of is past.

After a while of exploring and talking, Tai asked Luna a question.

"Hey shouldn't you be in night court or something?" He asked raising his eyebrow for good measure.

Luna looked back at him and giggled before answering.

"After two thousand years of waiting for you to return, AND, running a kingdom, I think I deserve a little vacation, so I took the week off of night court to catch up on all the time I missed that could have been spent with my stallion." She said adding big puppy eye's on that last part (if they could get any bigger).

Tai was still not used to being loved by royalty again so when Luna started acting all lovey, he just let the blush take over.

Seeing the blush on his muzzle, Luna decided to tease him about it.

"Awww, am I making my big, strong stallion feel embarrassed?" She said very playfully, making him blush even more.

"Oh, I think I am, maybe its because he doesn't love me, oh well" she said trying her best to act sad and see what would happen.

At that moment Tai heard two voices in his head, telling him what to do.

One was softly telling him to comfort her and tell her that he still liked her, the other was screaming "ITS A TARP!!"

But of course, because of the big heart he has, and not realizing that it was indeed a "tarp" he decided to comfort her.

Luna was now fake crying to try to get a reaction, she knew very well that he could not ignore a crying mare, especially his.

"Hey hey hey, don't cry don't cry, I still do you know that." He said very comfortingly.

score Luna thought to herself.

"I-i want to here you say it"she commanded with a fake stutter.

Tai's coat that was originally jet-black, now had a muzzle almost as pink as Tanners he was blushing so hard.

"I-i still l-love you" he said with a stutter that was very much real unlike Luna's

But she was not done, she wanted to mess with him some more as bay back for two thousand years of being alone.

"W-what did you say? it sounded like I hate you" she said very well knowing what he said and was biting the inside of her lip trying not to giggle at her stallion's hopelessness.

Tai's face felt like it was on fire, why was it so hard to comfort her, he had known her since they were both very young and had been best friends if not lovers for just as long, and wondered what he did in a past life to deserve this.

"I-i said I love you,  do you feel better now?"he asked still very concerned about Luna.

Satisfied with what she had done she decided to show it by leaning in and kissing him on the lips.

"Much" she replied after she pulled away.

They continued walking around and scaring the shit out of guards before Tai remembered something important.

"Shit, I promised Pinkie that I would be at the party tonight, there is no way I'll make it in time." He stated.

Luna just looked at him with a knowing stare before asking.

"Let me guess, welcome to Ponyvill party?"

"Yup, classic Pinkie" he stated.

Luna nodded her head in agreement before adding.

"Well we could not just simply stand them up can we? We will go to this party together.... as a family" looking at Autumn at the last part.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go"he exclaimed

The three then teleported down to ponyvill and looked around before finding sugar cube corner.

"Well we're here"he said as he knocked on the door.

He then heard a bunch of whispering before he heard Pinkie yell "come on in Tai".

As the three walked in the door was immediately shut behind them, all the lights were flicked on and at least thirty ponies, including twilight and the others all jumped out and screamed "surprise".

After a while of questions, and getting over the the initial shock of royalty being there, the party went great.

Until Tai noticed a certain somepony trot up behind him and huff.

Tai whipped around to find that he was face to face with non other than prince jack-ass himself.

Trying to be friendly he extended his hoof for a shake, but only got a disgusted look from the white pony.

"What? To good for a hoof shake man?" He asked still trying to be as police as possible.

"I am a prince, I do not shake hooves with such... pheasants." He stated as he flicked his hoof.

Tai was starting to lose his patients with this asshole, he never liked the snotty royals, nice ones like Luna are awesome, but ones like him, they are just intolerable, but he stayed calm.

"Woah, dude no need to throw insults, this is a party, calm down" he replied slightly agitated.

Blue blood though just acted as though he was insulted before angrily replying.

"Insults won't be the only thing I'll throw out of here if you do not get out of my way you incompetent piss brain."

Tai was really struggling not to beat the shit out of him right then.

Luna, along with most of the ponies there had noticed and were circling around the two stallions.

Luna walked to his side before asking if he needed help, but he said he is still going to try to be polite.

All was quiet now and everyone except a few ponies had gathered to see blue blood get a long deserved beating.

"Dude, you need to stop right now, you can't be trying to start a fight, not with my filly around" he said trying his last resort to avoid conflict and be the bigger stallion (and the only stallion ohhhhhh).

Blue blood looked furious, Tai could swear he saw steam coming from his ears before he spoke.

"YOU DARE TRY TO TELL ME, PRINCE BLUEBLOOD, TO STOP!? YOU ARE GOING TO GET IT!"he bellowed as he swung his hoof at Tai's face expecting an impact.

But Tai had used his wing to stop the punch inches away from him before speaking very angrily.

"Luna, could you take Autumn over to play with Sweetiebell, Scootalo, and Applebloom? He asked as he twisted Bluebloods hoof.

"I can't have her seeing this" he finished.

Luna quickly got Autumn off his back an on to hers and gave him a peck on the cheek before shouting.

"Kick his ass sweetie!" And then left to introduce Autumn to the cutie mark crusaders, earning a few startled looks because of what she just said.

"Auntie, who's side are you on?" He whined like the little bitch he is.

Luna turned around quickly before answering.

"His" was all she said before turning back around to get back to her mission.

Blue blood then looked back at Tai who had noticeably changed.

His once big eye's had gone to slits, his mane and tail that was usually a bright teal was now a flame of it, and he was now wearing a rather strange set of armour complete with a sword hilted to the armour.

The armour along with the sword, was unlike anything he had ever seen, it looked like even if a rhino, a hippo, a giraffe, an elephant, and a tiger all sat on it at once it still would not break.

The way the sword and armour looked though could only be described one way, exactly like Luna's mane and tale, like the night sky.

Tai, nor Blue blood knew where the armour and sword came from but put it past them, they had to fight.

Tai was done with his shit and was no longer going to be the 'nice guy' and was now going to beat the shit out of him and had encouragement from Luna.

Tai then using the hoof he was still holding in place with his wing, lifted Blueblood off the ground while he screamed in protest, outside of sugar cube corner.

As he was getting ready to kick him to the next century, he remembered that there was a crowd.

'Oh now would be a great time for a movie quote' he thought to himself frantically until one came to mind.

He smiled at his cleverness.

As he was rearing back for the kick, he smiled and said.

"I'll be back" then kicked him in the direction of the castle.

As he was flying away towards the mountain that the castle was propped up on the ledge of, Tai screamed.

"See ya back at the castle fucker!"

Before going back inside and getting applauded for his deed to society.

Luna walked up and applauded him for getting the armour back.

After giving her a blank stare for a while she explained that before he left for two thousand years, he and Tanner were the guardians of all things good and that was what their cutie marks meant, and that the armour and sword is from legend and are both very powerful, but before she went farther into that she decided to let the memory come back on its own.

The rest of the party was fun but eventually, it was over, and they had to say their thank yous and goodbyes.

But before they left, Tai noticed that the new princess twilight was giving Autumn, who was asleep on Tai's back, an angry scowl.

Tai decided to make fun.

"Aww, is someone upset because  my filly became an alicorn like 16 years younger than you did?" He asked very teasingly, earning a laugh from everyone in the room and then heading for the castle.

When they got there, Luna lowered the moon so that the sun could come out, then went to breakfast.

While the entire nut ball family including Autumn, Tai, Tanner, Lulu, and Celly ate their breakfast, a guard came rush in to the hall

Reporting that Prince BlBlue blood had somehow gotten stuck in the bricks of the observatory tower.

While Tanner and Celly just looked very confused, Luna and Tai were giggling like mad.

"And the kick is good" he said making a clever football reference which only he and Tanner got.

Eventually the three made their way back to their tower, so they can sleep.

After Autumn was in bed and it was Tai's turn, he was still very reluctant for some reasons but he was starting to get over it.

But what really did it was when Luna said that if he did not get in the bed, she would go outside, go to a store, buy a sofa, so she could come back here and make him sleep on it.

With that he got back into the bed with her.

But as soon as he did, she grabbed him in another death hug, this time making sure to be at eye level.

"Really" was all that Tai said as she shrugged and gave him a deep kiss before saying.

"Never letting go"

With that they fell asleep in each other warm embrace.

It was around two in the afternoon when Tai woke up realizing the he was not in Luna's death hug anymore.

He was about to shrug it off assuming she was getting some water or something until he heard a faint crying from the bathroom.

He immediately got up and slowly trotted up to the door before he knocked on it.

"Luna? Luna re you alrig-

Before he could finish the door was yanked open, he was pulled in, and the door closed behind him.

Luna was now giving him another death hug while sobbing into his shoulder.

He returned the hug and asked her what was wrong.

She calmed down a little but was still lightly crying before pouring her heart out.

"I-i don't know what to do Nightfall, I don't know w-what to do" she replied stuttering between sniffs.

"What do you mean?" He asked very confused

She gave a few more rounds of tears before replying.

W-we *sniff* we were supposed to get married Nightfall."

He just gave a confused look.

"So?"

"W-we were suppose to get married n the first day of fall, and it *sniff* was going to be the happiest day of my life, but the day before the wedding*sniff*you... y-you disappeared for two thousand years, and I was sad and alone *sniff* and when you came back, I felt so happy that I could marry you on the spot, but, you had lost your memory, you forgot how much you loved me, *sniff* you forgot how much I loved you, how will I marry you now if you don't remember?" She cried now sobbing into his shoulder again.

Tai felt heart broken, if she went through all of this suffering and emotional pain waiting for him to come back t her, he had to repay, she truly did love him, and so did he.

"Luna, if everything I've seen and lived is true, and you care for me as much as you say you do, than it dose not matter if my memory was lost, I will stay with you for the rest of our lives" he said with a whole heart.

Luna looked up at him before asking.

Earlier tonight you had trouble saying I love you, how can you really love me let alone be prepared to marry me if you can't even do that? I'll just have to face it, I lost my chance when I let go". She said very darkly.

Tai , not knowing what else to do, just used his hoof to raise her muzzle to his before saying.

"Well, now that you got me back, never let go again"

He then gave her a very deep kiss that left Luna In shock before she happily returned it.

When he pulled away, Luna looked sad, but then remembered something,  the first day of fall, was next week, he knew what he had to do to cheer up Luna, something he never thought he would have to do again.

As he pried Luna off of him she have a look that was of absolute hurt before he slowly gave a slight bow, and using his magic to move the hoof with the ring on it into view.

"Luna, will you marry me....for real this time?"

She was godsmacked, she had expected him to just want to avoid her now because of this, but now he was before her with a slight bow, proposimg .... again.

She truly could not be happier than at that moment.

In response she just gave him another kiss and hugged him intending to not let go.... not this time.

Tai only laughed in response.

"Alright come on clingy, let's get back to bed."he suggested.

Luna then gave him big puppy eye's before responding.

"Carry me?" She asked holding her forearms  up.

Letting out a sigh he used his wings to pick her up bride style and carry her back to bed where as soon as he got in was pulled into yet another death hug, but this time, he didn't mind and fell back asleep happy, the life crushed out of him, but happy.

However, before he fell asleep, he had to ask.

"Luna?" Who then gave a slight hum as response.

"Who is Nightfall?"

Her eyes shot open at the sudden realization of her mistake.

She started to fumble her words until Tai held a hoof to her mouth and gestured to calm down.

She took a deep breath and sighed.

"I didnt want to bring this to sudden but before you vanished, your name was nightfall, not Tai."

"........... Makes sense"

She giggled at him before snuggling up in response, where within minutes, there was a soft snoring.

And Tai followed in turn.

When they woke up it was around eight and Luna had to raise the moon, afterwards they decided to get a little more shut eye before they had to do anything, that is until they heard a loud 'CRASH' and rushed out to see that an entire set of Armour had been flipped upsidedown and was floating.

"DISCORD!!!!" Luna screamed using the royal Canterlot voice.

Tai could only think of one thing to say.

"Why is it that there is always something that keeps me from sleeping IN!?"