My Luna Love

It has been roughly two weeks since I spoke to my grandmother. I still have trouble wondering why she is so eager for me to draw my sword once again. In other news, Luna had managed to get a date for Princess Twilight to come and visit me. Here's the letter she sent:

Luna,

I am happy that you sent me a long over due update on how you're doing. I am glad that you have found a special somepony as it is, along with this note, long over due. You are a beautiful mare and my best friend, and I couldn't be happier for you. As for the question you asked, I will be glad to teach him, but due to some issues with my new castle, I would as of you to send him my way as making a trip up there would impede my royal duties should any problems arise. I can take him for a week out of a month so that...noticeable progress can be made. If you'd like a lesson plan, I can have one made within the hour and sent your way. I cannot wait to see him!

Your Friend,
Twilight Sparkle

She seems like a nice and logical mare. I could see that she had excellent penmanship and seeing that she was a good friend of Luna's, I wouldn't have to worry much about meeting someone I didn't know. Not that I didn't trust Twilight, I didn't know her personally. It is a quirk of mine that I got while living in America. It is hard to trust someone that you haven't met or don't know. Still, I cannot wait to start using magic.

I am actually sitting at the train station now with Luna who was leaning on me. Every so often she asked if I would break my word. After the third time I had asked her why she kept asking, I was very angry with those who she trusted before. Once her former loves went to travel somewhere, they cheated and lied. For one, cheating is downright offensive. A woman no matter the species should be able to trust their lover with their very lives. And second, lying is wrong to the point of law breaking. Should a person lie to those that they love should be put to death. To say that you didn't cheat and lie about it....it breaks my heart.

So I told her this, to put her heart at ease. "Luna my love, I would kill myself if I am even forced to bed another." I am not sure if there would be a pony who would force the colt-friend of their princess.

Luna sighs and nods. "I have sent Twilight a letter stating that your visit is a state affair. Should another pony try to stop you at any time in an attempt to delay your training, it would be considered an offence and would be charged."

I laughed a little at the severity of her over protectiveness, but when she looked away I hugged her tightly. "You're ridicules Luna, I love you..."

"I don't want you to kill yourself..." She said in a very weak voice. "...Please don't..."

"I mean what I say Luna, but I will try to avoid any lustful ponies. However, I am more than sure that no pony would dare to get near me let alone bed me."

"I just wanted to make sure..."

I nod in understanding when I hear the train down the tracks. It was another two minutes out. I stand up and hug Luna tightly. "By my word Luna, I will not misbehave." I winked at her and she giggled.

"Well don't be how they these days 'a stick in the mud'." She hugged me back and sighed. "I trust you won't...now...now that I know how far you will go. Why? Why though? Why so far?"

I touched her face and kissed it as the train pulled in. "Because I wouldn't hurt a goddess, I wouldn't hurt a woman or pony in this case, or leave her crying. I wouldn't dare... I hated seeing those who broke another's heart and leave them crying... I vowed to never leave someone sad, let alone crying their eyes out."

"ALL ABOARD!!!!"

I kissed her again and picked up my tickets. "I love you, I can't wait to write about what I learned."

"Soon you'll be able." She nodded and smiled. "Once you learn the basics, I can teach you."

"So why can't you?"

"Because I'm not that patient!" She laughed and pushed me into the train. "I will have a surprise for you when you get back!"

The train started to move and I shouted. "I can't wait!" After another few moments, Canterlot was leaving view. The ride would last six hours or so. I found myself a seat and sat down with a long sigh.

"Ticket sir?"

I held up my first class ticket. "Here, under the mark of Luna."

"You're a Threstralis! Cool!" He stamped my ticket and smiled as he gave it back. "Welcome Aboard, feel free to ask for anything. You've got a gold pass."

"Could you explain more on that sir?" I ask him.

"Why of course! You have a royal ticket, which means you get just about everything 'cept for the train." We laughed at his joke. "There'll be a sweet mare coming through here soon to see if ya want anything."

I nodded with a smile. "Well thank you sir."

"Have a good one."

I noted he had a slight accent about him, but I didn't mind it. It sounded like an South-Eastern American's. I loved he was nice to me, unlike most of the ticket masters I have spoken to. He was also a little aged, he was sporting a gray goatee and mane. Still, a nice stallion in my terms. He complemented me, made a little small talk, and blessed my day. Unlike ponies, humans are rude if they don't respect others. My mom beat that out of me real quick. See, I was raised with fear, not leniency.

The train was rocking only slightly, but being the only one in the car, I felt myself growing a little tired. If there was one thing I liked, was moving in something that had power behind it. The feeling of being pushed forward by a powerful force left a smile on my face. Whenever I rode on a plane, everyone wondered why I was smiling, it was the sound and power of the duel jet engines. With a train, it was almost like that. I was sitting in first class, only three cars behind the engine with the staff and the coal car in front.

Sometime later a gray mare with blond mane walked through wearing a maid outfit. She smiled as she approached, but that's when I noticed her eyes.

"Hello~!" She smiled cheerfully, as if she didn't notice her eyes were facing different directions. Good thing I knew desecration and how to act polite around those with disorders. My mother was a Special Education teacher for high school students. "Do you need anything to eat sir?" She carried this free voice, pure of hate or worry. It made me smile.

With this smile I said, "Why yes, if you have any milk that would be ni-*SLAP*"

"WHO DO YOU THINK I AM!? SOME TRAMP!?"

I shook my head frantically. "No ma'am! I was asking for cow milk!"

She calmed down and smiled again. "Okay~!" She trotted off, leaving to shake my head and rubbed my cheek.

"Damn...that hurt..."

The mare came back in with the milk and handed it to me. She still had that smile and laughed a little. "Sorry about the mistake sir. It's just, most stallions would try to do something to me if they rode alone."

Oh, that makes sense now. "It's fine Ms...?"

"Whooves, Mrs. Whooves."

"Who's the lucky stallion to have such a nice, respectful mare like you?"

"He doesn't have a name, but a title. I'm waiting for him to come back after he finds his missing home. His name is Dr. Whooves!"

I chuckled. "Sounds like someone I knew long ago Mrs. Whooves. Although, he was never known to settle down."

"You know my husband?"

"Saw him, not know him. I saw him when I was little. Eight or nine years ago...Something like that."

A bell rang and the mare bowed. "I need to go see what the other cars want. I hope you have a present ride~!"

And that I did. With a glass full of milk in my belly, I slowly fell asleep to the rocking on the train. It was nice, to sleep alone. Sure I was going to miss Luna, I didn't mind small naps while alone. The train was moving down the country side, and I let it slide with my nap on a train ride.

I do remember a small dream I had during the ride though, so I will entertain you with it while the ride passed. I was walking down the halls of my two story home back in Ireland. The house sat on three acres of land, and the whole thing was luckily paid off. We hit a small tug with our money, but we still had enough to scrape by.

I heard my mother talking to my father in another room, but I ignored them. I've had this same dream multiple times over the years, and it is by far my favorite. After a few turns through the kitchen, I made my way out the back door into the training yard. We didn't call it a backyard, it was the training yard, nothing else. The yard meant a ton and a half to me. It was where I grew up, and it is where I won my first duel between my father when I was fourteen.

Following my memory, I walked farther on to the shed where we hid all the blades we used to practice. Half of the shed held wooden weapons, the same I used until I was twelve, and on the other half were the metal blades. Most were different sizes of duel edge blades, but I was looking at the very end of the shed. A newly forged double bladed staff. To give you an image of what it looked like, think of it as Darth Maul's lightstaff. Grinning, I took it.

The blade hummed in my hands. It's tanned leather hilt fit both of my hands comfortably. I grinned even wider, and where the guards were, had two sapphires. Slowly, I rubbed the gems that sat inside the guards, and the blade hummed more.

"Mark!" I heard my father's voice shout. I looked over to him and he smiled and pulled a lever, causing a pig corps get pulled up by a rope. "Aim!"

I narrowed my eyes. I moved into the Balanced stance, leaving the blade behind my back and my legs spread to my shoulders. Closing my eyes, I inhaled. The air was heavy today, that was fine, the sun, if I didn't swing at a right angle would blind me via reflection.

"NOW!" I lunged forward at the dead pig and spun the blade in a near perfect circle and cut the entire thing in two, very clean halves. However, I continued, and kept moving it around. The blade, Ripper, ripped the air. If anything was around it, would get cut into pieces, many pieces.

I soon forgot the world, felling Ripper in my hands. I jumped and spun, smiling and laughing, feeling Ripper hum in joy. My mother told me all objects had their own souls, who either loved or hated their masters. They would break faster if they hated, and stayed nearly new if they loved and were loved. Ripper enjoyed having me in her presence. Yes, that is right, it was a she believe it or not. She was alone on her own wall in the shed because no blade was like her.

I finished out the last move and had trouble catching my breath, but I smiled, and Ripper was ecstatic after being used. I knelt down and wiped the blood off of her and ran my hands along each side, muttering "Good girl" over and over.

My father began clapping slowly, followed by another set of lighter claps. "Good job my boy!"

I bowed to my father and smiled. "Thank you father..." I couldn't call him dad. I wanted to, but he refused. Anyone could be my 'dad' the way he saw it, but only one person could be my father. His pale blue eyes shone down on me with my mother's.

"Yes, good job my little Angel." She laughed and clapped. "Soon you'll be ready to learn the King stance."

I bowed deeper, shooting my head to my chest. "I cannot wait for such a day mom!"

"Sir?" I looked up at my parents, hearing a different voice coming from them. They shouted in unison, "SIR!"

I snapped awake and looked around frantically. "Good thing you woke up." The ticket master laughed. "We've arrived if this is your stop."

"Where are we?"

"Ponyville sir. Princess Twilight is standing outside waiting for you."

I nodded and yawned as I got up. "Yeah...thanks a bunch."

"No problem. Just doing my job. Have a great stay! Town's a wonderful place for a visit or to live."

Keeping a smile, I walked off the train. It was dark now, the moon shone up in the night sky. I looked around to find my star, and saw it shining green.

"Are you Angel?" I heard a perky voice ask. I turned my head and saw a lavender mare with a set of wings and a horn. Her mane was a deeper purple with a pink stripe, and her cutie mark was a pink star surrounded by white sparks. I nodded at her and she smiled widely. "Hi! I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, but you can just call me Twilight. You're Luna's special somepony huh?" She stepped around me and nodded. "Well she picked a handsome stallion. Now, first question. Do you have any magical experience?"

I shook my head. "Do card tricks count?"

"If you want to be like Trixie..." I heard her groan in annoyance. "No, I guess not. Alright, come with me, I'll explain what we're going to be doing over the next week."

"It's a pleasure to be in the presence of another goddess Pri-Twilight...It truly is."

"Oh come now, I used to be like you. Sometimes I wish I used to be a unicorn. Back then I didn't get all of this unwanted attention." She was smart and modest? A good combination in my books, but nothing compared to Luna of course. She was much shorter than I by at least a head and a half. "So," She started again. "First, we need to see where you are on magic level. Then we'll start with Levitation and Illumination. By the end of the week, you'll be able to levitate just about everything."

"Is it that easy to get started?"

"W-well no...Fillies have lower magical levels because their mana pools are smaller. Since you are a healthy grown stallion, your mana pool, and just by the looks of it, is much larger. I can feel a level six energy just without my equipment. We'll need to see when we get to the castle."

"I cannot wait to get started Twilight. I am excited to learn magic."

"Luna told me everything about you, even that you used to be human. I don't like humans all that much-"

"Neither do I..."

"But we seem like a nice gentlestallion. If Luna picked you out from all the other humans on your world, then you must be super special to her."

I nodded with a smile. "I'd like to think that too."

"Great!" She pointed to the giant crystalline structure. "Welcome to your temporary home for the week!"

This place was huge! I'd have to hug Twilight so I wouldn't get lost!