A New Eclipse

Screwball:

We all meet up in the plaza to discus what we had just heard from my Dad and Celestia, I'll admit that I didn't expect my Dad to be so emotional about his friend returning, I did't even know that he had such a history with Celestia and Eclipse. Twilight looked a little depressed, probably due to the fact she was given false information about Eclipse her whole life. I motioned Mothball to follow me over to her.

"Twilight, are you OK? You seem a little down." Mothball asked her with a worried look. She lifted her head to look at us and sighed.

"I'm fine Mothball, I'm just annoyed, I've been feed false info on a REALLY important subject my whole life, and I believed it." She hung her head in shame and took a deep breath. "I'm just the kind of pony that cares more about these things than others, that's all."

I grabbed the book from her saddlebag and held it in front of her. "Well, you've got this thing now right, and Celestia said all you need to know is in this book." That seemed to cheer her up a bit. She took the journal with her magic and began to flip through the pages. She then widened her eyes in shock.

"Wait a minute, most of these pages are blank." Everyone was shocked, except for my father who was chuckling a bit.

"I guess I forgot to mention that Eclipse cast a little spell on that thing." Everyone looked at him with confused expressions. "You see my little ponies, this book is connected to Eclipse and his emotions. The more he trusts the pony reading the book, the more they can read. My guess is Eclipse is allowing you to read the certain parts of his journal that hold the answers to your questions or something Tia and I left out."

He then grabbed the book and started flipping through the pages and was placing bookmarks on certain pages. He then handed the book back over to my Godmother.

"There you go Twilight, I've marked all the pages that are accessible to you." Twilight looked as if she was thinking deeply for a moment. She then looked surprised for a moment then turned to my father.

"Wait a minute how are you able to read it?"

Dad slapped his forehead and tugged Twilights ears. "Were you not listening to Celestia and I back there, I've been friends with Eclipse since we were children." Twilight swatted his claw and paw away.

"I'm sorry Discord, I just assumed that, well, since you were evil when we met you that, Never mind." Dad only gave her a stern look then looked over to me and Mothball. He only smiled at us and said something we never thought we'd hear from him.

"Since I'm in a good mood tonight, I shall leave you two alone for the night." We saw my mom look like she was going to faint from hearing this and everyone else could only stare at him in question. We decided not to let him change his mind and I teleported us to our hotel room, Mothball only looked at me with a blush.

"Wait are you suggesting that we, you know?"

I giggled and gently punched his shoulder. "No no no, what I was suggesting is that since we have some quality time together without Dad hovering over us, we should make it count." I pulled him in for a kiss when he pointed to something outside the window. When I turned around expecting it to be Dad, I saw the same black figure we saw when Celestia was explaining everything. It was motioning us to follow. When he began flying away. "Should we follow him Mothy?" We looked out to see him waiting for us.

"Why not, It's not like every time we follow a strange figure that something bad happens."

I smiled and and teleported us onto a nearby rooftop and we began to fly in the figures direction. He began flying over to a nearby forest, where he landed at a stream that flowed into Canterlot's waterfall. He sat down just beside and looked up at the moon. We landed just a few feet behind him when we noticed his flowing orange mane. He was also wearing some kind of orange chest plate with matching orange boots.

"I will say, Discord has done well for himself over these past few years." He said with a chuckle. I moved forward a little to get a better look at him, his face was lit by the moonlight He resembled Luna in many ways, His eyes were orange like his mane, his cutie mark was a solar eclipse.

"You're Prince Eclipse, aren't you?" I muttered.

He looked at me with caring eyes. "Yes, I am."

"But, you're ment to be returning tomorrow night, why are you revealing yourself now?"

"Who said anything about revealing myself, I just wanted to meet my niece as soon as I could." It was when he said those words that I sat beside him and scooted closer. When I turned to face him he was giving me a warm fatherly smile.

"N-niece?"

"You are aware of my relationship with you're father, correct?"

"Yes, you two are friends from childhood right?"

He smiled and placed a hoof on my back, but it felt strange, like the feeling you get when family member touches you.

"I've spent more than three thousand years with your father, I consider him my brother, so I consider you as my niece." He noticed Mothball hiding in the trees and then smiled back at me. "Why don't you introduce me to your Fiancé?"

I giggled and went to drag Mothball out of his hiding spot. "Mothball come down from there."

He popped his head out from the leaves. "Are you sure Screwy?"

"Come on, he wants to meet you." He looked unsure but hovered down to my side. We walked over to Eclipses side where he held out his hoof to greet Mothball.

"And what is your name, young one?"

"Mothball, how come you don't think I'm evil?" I patted him on the back trying to tell him that not everypony hate changelings.

"I can sense you have a heart, and it's kind of obvious that you are not evil," He laughed, "otherwise Discord would have torn you apart by now." He patted Mothball on the head and then put his hoof to Mothballs chest. "You have something many changelings wish they could have, don't ever take it for granted."

After he said this, I saw Mothball's face smile with pride. "Thank you sir."

Eclipse gave a fatherly smile. "Please, just call me Eclipse."

I teleported between them. "How about Uncle Eclipse?"

He looked shocked but then returned to his warm smile. "Sure why not kiddo." He looked up to the moon again. "You two should be heading back in case Discord decides to check up on you." He began to flap his huge black wings. "And if he is there, just say that you went to see uncle Eclipse." And with that he shot up through the clouds, leaving behind a note saying, "See you tomorrow night kids."

We were about to warp back to the hotel when my dad teleported in front of us.

"And where have you two been?"

"I thought you said that you gave us the night to ourselves?"

"I did, but when I knocked on your door no one answered. But it just looks like you two are just enjoying the moonlight together, so I'll be on my way." Me and Mothball looked at each other in shock, how was he being so calm all of a sudden. He was about to warp back to His and mom's room when I stopped him.

"Wait Dad." He turned around with a puzzled expression. "I want to tell you what we were really doing."

"It isn't anything dirty right?"

"No, that's not it."

"Well then what?"

"We came here to see Uncle Eclipse." That caused him to put on a confused expression. He then summoned a hearing aid and stepped closer.

"I'm sorry what did you say, I've got terrible hearing?"

I sighed at his action and then looked him in he eye. " When we were in our room, Mothball noticed that shadowy figure we saw at the castle, It told us to follow and we did so. Then it brought us here and it was Uncle Eclipse."

"Uncle Eclipse?"

"I asked him if we could call him that, you know, since he considers you his brother."

It looked like he was close to tears. "He, he really said that?" We nodded. "But why did he let you see him?"

"He said he wanted to see his niece early." Mothball explained. I warped beside Mothball and looked at my Father.

"I don't know why but, when he touched me, it felt like he really was my uncle, and he was giving me the same look you gave me when I was younger, you know, a fatherly stare." It looked as if he was holding in his tears, I didn't know why he was crying, but my guess is that he's glad that we met and that Eclipse thinks of me as his niece.

"Get to bed you two." He then disappeared most likely to my mom. We sat there in silence, trying to figure out why dad acted the way he did. Mothball then decided to break the silence.

"We should get back, it's getting late."

I thought for a moment, I suddenly felt a surge of emotion and then said something I never thought I'd say. "Mothy, I think it's time we took our relationship to the next level." I could feel my face become red with embarrassment, as it seemed to just slip out. I turned to him to see his eyes wide with shock.

"W-w-w-What?"

"Mothball, I think we've put it off long enough." I could see him starting to panic.

"Screwy, is this one of your jokes?" I shook my head seeing his face become red, he was trying to think of a way out of it, but I guess he realised that it was bound to happen. At least at some point.

"Where is this coming from, it just came out of nowhere, and what would Discord think?"

"Think about it Mothball, look at all of the ponies that we are always around, they all have kids, I want kids Mothy." I could tell I was confusing him, it looked as if he was trying to think of what the consequences would be. But I guess he finally came across the thought of us starting a family.

"Screwy, are you sure you're ready for this?" I nodded, my face now glowing red. "Then let's head back to the hotel." I still don't know why I said anything about that to begin with. He grabbed my hoof and began leading me back to the hotel room. And you can kinda guess what happened next.

Eclipse:

As I watched them walk back into the hotel, I gave them their privacy. I then saw Cadance watching them enter their hotel. She smiled and retreated back to her room.

I began flying back over to the spot I met them, I then spoke aloud.

"Not bad Cadance, not bad at all."