The Forever Burning Embers of Love

As Luna slept in her lover's embrace, despite the cold of the early morning air, she had felt warmer than ever before. She thought of nothing except making love with Blaze, felt nothing but her relief of being with him. Also, the horrible feeling of loneliness which had caused her to learn necromancy in the first place had now been replaced with the opposite; someone, besides Celestia of course, actually cared about and loved her unconditionally. The emptiness from being without Blaze for all those years had now been filled by his presence.

Stll half asleep and seeking the warmth of Blaze's soft fur, Luna rolled over, expecting to brush her face across the fire colored mane of the pegasus dearest to her, perhaps sharing a passionate kiss as she curled up with his hooves around her.

However, instead of her lover's chest, her hooves only met empty air.

Luna was instantly wide awake, heart racing. Where was Blaze, and what had happened to him? In her fearful state, many questions about him raced through her head. Had last night even been real?

That last question hurt deeply to even comprehend, but it had sure felt real to her. If it wasn't, then when had she passed out?

No, everything that happened the previous night wasn't just her imagination. However, this still didn't give her any idea of where Blaze could be. She started to become increasingly worried.

Luna had now begun to sweat, and breathe very unsteadily in anxiety. What could she do? She thought that she could search for him in Canterlot, but if anypony saw their princess in this scared state, there would be quite a bit of commotion, and that's not something she believed she could handle at the moment. She wasn't going to lie to her subjects if they asked, either; she felt it would be a good idea to hold onto the currently small amount of trust they had in her.

Luna then decided she had no choice but to wait for him to return, and she hoped greatly that he would.

But what if he didn't? What if, after only one night of being back, something awful had happened to him? Tears had begun to slide down her quickly paling cheeks, and shaking had begun to overtake her relatively small body. She couldn't go much longer without him comforting her.

After five more minutes, which felt like an hour each, Luna had began sobbing into the soft grass, her tears soaking it, causing her chest to feel somewhat uncomfortable on top of it, but she didn't care about that, only Blaze.

Luna then thought of how weak she must have seemed to everyone; crying so often. After all, she was the legendary and powerful Alicorn, and she thought of how her subjects probably thought that meant she was always strong and fearless, but that was not the case, not at all.

She continued to cry until no more tears would come, and curled up even more on the now completely tear-soaked grass, hopeless, until she hear a sound.

It was the sound of a pegasi's wings flapping frantically nearby, followed by the soft thud of four hooves touching down on the soft ground. Could it be, could Blaze have returned? However, Luna wasn't going to get her hopes up because she knew it was probably just an ordinary pegasus in shock of seeing their princess crying in a clearing, or it could have just been her cruel imagination playing another one of it's tricks on her.

"No, it can't be him, probably just sister wondering where I've been..." Luna thought to herself, having given up on Blaze ever returning.

"Luna, I heard you from up there! Please dear, tell me what made you so distraught!" an unsteady, but sympathetic voice said from behind her quivering frame.

She couldn't believe it. She knew that voice. She loved that sweet voice, it belonged to Blaze, and there was no doubt in her mind. To make sure she wasn't just hearing things, she turned her head around, her reddened eyes widening as she gazed on the deep black pegasus standing worryingly nearby. It was him.

"Blaze!" Luna yelled, running towards him, collapsing into his hooves, tears of happiness had now begun freely sliding down her face, her dark blue cheeks having their color returned to them as soon as she recognized her eternal love.

"Yes? Luna I'm here!" Blaze said rubbing her back with his free hoof, ignoring the amount of weight put onto his shoulder by his slightly larger lover.

After he had been caressing her for a little bit longer, Luna said quite audibly, "Please, don't ever do that again, you scared me too much!"

"But Luna, I only went to visit Canterlot; my wings had felt so stiff, as if I hadn't used them in a thousand years! And I didn't want to wake you; you looked so peaceful in your sleep." Blaze exclaimed, failing to notice the slight tightening of Luna's muscles as she heard him say that.

After a few more moments of burying her face in Blaze's shoulder, she looked up at him, and said "Okay, I'm done. I'm sorry for overreacting."

"Ok, I'm sorry for leaving without telling you, I'll never do it again, I promise." Blaze said sincerely.

"It's fine, you didn't know." Luna whispered as she moved her lips into his, enjoying the moment of their loving union.

After the kiss was done, Blaze had started to remember what had been troubling him ever since he went to Canterlot.

"Luna, I have a serious question, and the subject is frightening me quite a bit." Blaze said, his voice shaking.

"Yes?" Luna asked nervously, having a good idea of what he was probably about to say.

"Earlier, when I flew to Canterlot, I.. I didn't recognize anything! The buildings were different, the style of clothing, everything! I even looked for some of my friends, members of my flight team, or anypony I recognized even remotely, but there were none. I have never seen anypony who was there once, and when I asked about my flight team, one pony said 'The Firebolts? The legendary team that the Wonderbolts were inspired by, so much so that they used half of their name? They disbanded shortly after the death of their captain, what was his name again? Velocious Blaze, I believe; and I do say, you bear a close resemblance to him...' Luna, why are they saying I died?!" Blaze shouted in fear, causing Luna to recoil backwards, never hearing Blaze talk like this.

She decided that her original plan of not telling Blaze what had happened was pointless, and with a deep sigh, she began to speak.

"My love, I am so sorry I hid this from you, but now I am going to tell you everything. When you were wounded by Celestia's guards, it killed you. Also, I wasn't cleansed from being Nightmare Moon until recently, meaning I was on the moon for one thousand years, which is also how long you had been dead." Luna paused, noticing the shocked look on Blaze's face, and then continued.

"I had become so lonely, having the trust and love of almost no pony except my sister herself, that I wanted to feel loved again, and that's what caused me to bring you back from the grave, with Necromancy." Luna said with an exasperated sigh, not knowing how he would react.

"But.. but.. how?" Blaze asked, dumbfounded and full of complete shock.

"A very complicated process that would take too long to explain. You are alive because I'm using my magic to keep you that way." Luna finished, not wanting to look at her love, because of what his reaction may be. However, she deserved anything, because of how she wasn't being truthful originally.

Had this came from any other pony, he would have called them crazy. However, this was Luna, and Blaze knew that she would never lie to him. He couldn't believe he'd been dead for so long, since he had no recollection of what happened after he passed. But now, everything made sense to him.

After a few more moments of looking away, Luna felt Blaze's hooves turn her head so that she was looking directly into his gold eyes, not knowing what to expect. It surprised her when he pushed his lips into hers, and she accepted, their tongues twirling in each other's mouths, the moment full of intimacy. As they pulled apart, Blaze was looking directly at her, lovingly as ever.

"Thank you for telling me the truth, Luna. As strange as it is being dead for a millennium , I've only ever cared about being with you, my dear, and now that we are together once again, I'm so happy, thank you!" Blaze exclaimed, hugging her tightly.

This was a lot better outcome than Luna expected. As kind and understanding as Blaze was, she didn't think anypony could handle a truth this extreme. This is why she loved Blaze so much, because he was unlike everypony else.

"Well, I think it's time we get out of this clearing, and go to somewhere, more comfortable, like the Castle?" Luna asked, noticing that she hadn't cared for her teeth, hair, or body for an entire day.

"Of course, my princess!" said Blaze happily, outstretching his multicolored wings, preparing to take flight.

"After you, my love." Luna said kindly.

With a nod of his head, Blaze took off, his flame colored underfeathers causing an apparent trail of fire to follow him as he sped upwards and halted in mid air, awaiting his mare.