Several Years After Arriving In Equestria

Azariah slept in his bed peacefully as the day began only to be woken up by the sunlight as the sun shined through his window. He groaned and begrudgingly got up from the comforts of his bed and went to his bathroom to get ready for the day. He looked at himself in the mirror and his hazel eyes, spotted beard, side burns, and mustache that were getting more noticeable, both of his future wives didn't like him having long hair or facial hair since they loved his normal look, so he shaved off the facial hair and sideburns before he showered and brushed his teeth.

He used my magic to get the clothes he would wear today, Galixia and Cosmos told him that when he was brought to Equestria he somehow developed an affinity to magic so he's been being taught magic for a while by Galixia until the magic he had a particular affinity for turned out to be dark magic, since then Cosmos has been teaching him magic since he knows more about dark magic. He put his clothes on and got his hair the way Celestia and Luna preferred it. When he was all done he looked at himself in the full body mirror that he had in his room.

His hair was dark brown, short and in a small pony tail. His clothes were a black shirt with the sun and moon on it, he wore dark blue pants, and black shoes. He also had on three rings which each had a unique symbol on them, the symbols were the sun, a fading crescent moon surrounded by the night sky, and the last symbol was a guitar with a crown, the ponies who made the rings for him had made a couple of tries until they got it correct. He also wore a necklace with that same symbol, and finally he had black crown made of a strange mineral that he didn't know, on the crown was a set of gems that were supposed to resemble him, Luna, and Celestia.

He laughed as he thought about how he was supposed to marry Celestia and Luna. At first his relationship with Celestia and Luna was bad since they played pranks on him that were kinda mean. But do to being the only thing that was genetically compatible with Alicorns, their relationship slowly improved as they spent more and more time together. During this time we developed a magic bond between the three of them, this bond was made it so them were connected and that it would strengthen their love.

He gave one last look to the mirror and smiled before leaving his room. Since the whole thing with him being Celestia and Luna's future husband started Cosmos and Galixia made him The Crown Prince Of Equestria, meaning that after he married them he'd be King Of Equestria and they'd be Equestria's Queens. This also caused some problems for him whenever he was alone outside the palace.

Before he was made Crown Prince of Equestria the nobles for the most part ignored or avoided him since he was basically just someone who lived in the palace with the royal family. But the minute he was made Crown Prince all the nobles changed their attitude towards him. Now nobles want to get to know him and some try to get him to side with them during Day Court on issues that for the most part he didn't really want to be involved with.

A portion of the nobles didn't really care for the ponies that weren't nobles. So he tend to avoid being present at Day Court since he really didn't like being put on the spot. But when he was required to be at Day Court he tried his best to listen carefully to what the nobles are asking for to be approved or things like that so that he didn't make a mistake and accidentally approve something that would be bad for Equestria.

While he walked to the dining hall he hoped that Cosmos wasn't present today since some days he is either finishing up Night Court or no nobles had arrived to petition for something to be approved. Azariah's relationship with Cosmos was okay at first and then it improved when his affinity for dark magic developed but after he and Galixia made him Crown Prince their relationship has started to be on a small decline.

Cosmos has started teaching him about being King Of Equestria and how exactly to do things since he was now his successor. He believed Cosmos wants him to rule Equestria exactly like he rules it when the time comes for him to be king. He also doesn't like his interests in music since he claims a king doesn't have time for such things.

Cosmos is a large Alicorn Stallion with grey eyes, an almost pitch black coat, and his mane and tail resemble the night sky much like Luna's mane and tail but different. When he entered the dining hall he saw Celestia, Luna, Galixia, and Cosmos were all present. Not even a second after he sat down, Cosmos spoke to him "Azariah, you are late, do you plan on being late when you are King ?" Cosmos asked him with a bit of a stern tone to his voice.

"No, I do not plan on that sir" He replied to him quickly as her expected him to. Galixia, Luna, Celestia, and Azariah believed that Cosmos knows that he scares Azariah quite a bit. Luna and Celestia get on either side of him as Galixia talks to Cosmos.

"Taylor, thou knows father wouldn't hurt thee a second time with mother present" Luna whispers to him in an attempt to get him to stop being scared of Cosmos. Luna was referring to when Cosmos spanked him during the second year of him living in the palace. His butt hurt for nearly two weeks and during those two weeks Galixia kept him with her twenty four seven, this made Cosmos have to sleep alone while he recovered.

"Cosmos, can you perhaps be a bit less stern with Taylor ?" He heard Galixia ask Cosmos with the same kindness she is famed for. Before he could try to eavesdrop more Celestia licked his cheek causing him to blush deep red. Celestia does this on occasion to see how far she can go with it until other ponies would say something about it.

When the food is brought out we start eating. Since Azariah is an omnivore he was eating some eggs and bacon. When they finished eating Galixia and Celestia went to Day Court while Luna snuck out of the dining hall at some point leaving him with Cosmos. "Azariah, you have the day off from your Magic and Ruling Lesson's, but tomorrow you will pay attention when I teach you" Cosmos says as he gets up and leaves to most likely go to sleep.

With that Azariah got up and headed to the palace gardens that were just outside the palace. He hoped to get some peace and quiet and alone time, not counting the guards though. Roughly twelve minutes after he started to relax in the gardens his hopes were washed away.

"Oh Prince Taylor, what a surprise to see you here" He heard a mare say. He slowly opened his eye's the entire time thinking to himself 'please don't be a noble, please don't be a noble'. When his eyes are fully open he was greeted by what he already figured was the speaker, A Noble.

He looked at her and a few things go through his mind, the first being why isn't she at Day Court like most Nobles are, what was her name since he didn't recall ever seeing her before, and what did she want to try and get him to side with or against. "Greetings Miss... I'm sorry I don't think I've had the pleasure of making your acquaintance before now, may I ask what your name is ?" He asked her while forcing a smile onto his face as he was taught by Cosmos. He told him that he should be polite to the nobles and act with courtesy even though he disliked most nobles, and the most important thing, find out what they want and be careful how he responds after he found out since a noble would be waiting for anything he did that they can use to say that he approved what they wanted.

She smiled at him and bowed gracefully before speaking. "Oh my apologizes your highness, I am Blue Shimmer, I came here to see the nice plants and didn't know you were here, but since you are may I ask you a few things ?" She asked with a smile. Upon hearing what she said he thought to himself 'dang how did I know you wanted to ask me a few things ?'.

"Why of course you can Miss Shimmer, but why not ask Queen Galixia or Princess Celestia instead ? They are holding Day Court at the moment after all" He asked her with a forced smile and with politeness. He could tell that she will most likely come up with some excuse as to why she is asking him and not Galixia or Celestia. But to his surprise she gasped which he couldn't tell if it was a fake gasp or a real one.

"I didn't know Day Court had started, thank you your highness" She said sweetly and bowed before heading into the palace. He truly wasn't buying this and walked over to a guard. He tapped the guard on the helmet and he turned around to see him.

The Day After Nightmare Moon Is Banished

He breathed heavily as he had been running non stop for the whole night. He was bleeding from where Luna, no from where Nightmare Moon stabbed him with her horn and if she was telling the truth where she cursed him. He collapsed to his knees and can't hold back his tears as he started crying.

He held where he was bleeding and with a small amount of dark magic and what remained of Nightmare Moon's magic healed the stab wound which just barely missed his heart, even though the wound is healed there is still a scar. He panted and looked down at the rings that are meant to symbolize his and their love for each other and cried fully into his hands. 'I've lost both my fiancés in one night, one banished to the moon for a thousand years and the other blames me for what happened and exiled me' He thought to himself sadly.

After a minute he pulled himself together and stood up as he subconsciously hardened his heart determined not to suffer a betrayal like this again as he looked towards where he can still see one of the towers of the palace. "Fine, you want me go-gone so bad Celestia, well I'll grant your wish, H-have fun ruling alone si-since you banished and exiled those who sho-should have ruled along with you!!!" He yelled and did the thing that he never would have done before, he threw away her ring and stormed off as best he could. Azariah Lucius Taylor was gone, sealed in his frozen heart where he will never again be hurt or betrayed, now there is only Dark Light.

Unbeknownst to him Celestia had calmed down from her anger and was worried for him. Then she heard what he yelled and panicked as she tried looking for him. Nearly a week later she found the ring of his that was meant to symbolize her.

She cried believing she may have caused him to go off to his death since he had been stabbed by Nightmare Moon and now she couldn't find him.

The Present

He rested his head in his hands as he remembered that night and fought back the sadness. He calmed down as he felt the train stop and realized that he had reached his destination. "Welcome to Ponyville" A Pink pony with a puffy mane said with her face against the train window scaring him a bit.

Author's Note

The rest of his past in Equestria will done through flashbacks that will occur during the rest of the story. The Mane Six will appear in the next chapter, well technically Pinkie appeared in this chapter.