Chapters The Forever Burning Embers of Love
After what had just happened, Luna started feeling less sadness, and more, much more anger. She diverted her gaze to the moon. She thought of how she had been there, alone, for 1,000 years, and what she had become.
"It's just not fair... IT'S JUST NOT FAIR!" Luna yelled, throwing her black crown across the room, sending it scraping across the floor and making a chip in the paint as it hit the spotless white wall of her bedroom. Luna sat back down on her bed, burying her face in her hooves. As she lifted her face, she brought over a mirror with her magic, and could hardly believe what she saw.
Her dark blue, prominent cheeks were stained with many tears, and her large eyes were reddened from her crying. She also noticed how her carefully curled mane was now plastered to her face in an ugly mess. She lowered the mirror, not wanting to believe what a mess she now looked like, and in desperation, tried to recall the last time she had been truly happy.
She knew exactly when it was. It was before she was sent to the moon, 1,000 years ago. Just the thought of him made her long to see him again. What had made her feel truly loved and happy was her long dead love, Velocious Blaze. Thinking of him, his sleek black coat, flame colored mane and tail, his rich orange eyes, and amazingly strong wings made her heart beat faster and she began to perspire as she remembered what it felt like to kiss him. Even though he had been dead for 1,000 years, she still got excited thinking about him, because of how long it had actually been. Her sadness had made her temporarily forget about Velocious Blaze, though she knew in her heart she could never let herself forget him entirely.
He had been the only pony who seemed to love Luna no matter what. Even when she promised to shroud the land in eternal night, he still stood by her side. In fact, she remembered as she was being banished to the moon by her sister, he flew towards her, screaming for Celestia to stop, but when she ignored him, he knew what was about to happen. Even though she had transformed into Nightmare Moon, he said "Luna, I know you're still in there, and I want to let you know, just in case we never see each other again, I will always love you with all of my heart!" And that's the last thing he ever said to her, she remembered it as she was alone on the moon, memorizing it, and after her initial anger had subsided, she started to long for him, she had actually started to wish she had never become Nightmare Moon, just so she could have stayed with him.
But he was long gone, and she wished that there was some way she could see him again, even if it was only for a short while. Right then, a dark thought had come into Luna's head, and she found herself smiling slowly. She knew of one solution, and she didn't care if it had been banned from use by anypony in all of Equestria for as long as she could remember. Her solution was simple; Necromancy.
If she couldn't be happy with the living ponies, maybe she could be with one that was dead for a millennium.
It must have been about two in the morning, and Luna knew exactly where she was going to learn the spell, the Royal Canterlot Library, the most complete collection of books with every subject in all of Equestria. She strapped on a pretty navy blue saddlebag with her cutie mark on the center, a gift from Celestia. It was pitch black outside, and there was almost no light from the moon since it was in it's "new" phase, but it didn't matter. Luna knew all of the castle by heart, since she had lived there for over 1,000 years.
The drowsy guard guarding the Royal Canterlot Library was suddenly awoken from his half-asleep state when he saw a long shadow slowly moving along the wall opposite to him. Normally nothing out of the ordinary happened on guard duty, so he wasn't sure what to expect. His heart rate quickened with anticipation.
"Halt, show yourself!" he said, brandishing his barely used silver spear.
He suddenly felt his spear being lifted from his hooves by an unknown magical force, and before he knew it, he was looking right into the deep blue eyes of his princess.
"Sorry if I frightened you." Luna said, returning his spear to him.
"No, princess, blame me for acting the way I did towards you, but yes, I was a little bit frightened, I didn't know what to expect, my lady." he said shamefully, bowing his head.
"You are forgiven. I request entry to the forbidden section of the library." said Luna.
"Of course, my lady, anything for you!" said the guard, stepping aside.
Luna nodded her head in thanks as she entered the slightly lit collection of literary work. She barely took notice of all the regular old books she passed, such as "The History of Equestria" written almost 500 years ago, rendering it almost useless, and other ancient books which she wondered why were even kept on the shelves. She reached a magically locked solid diamond gate, that only could be unlocked by high ranking members of the Royal Guard, or of course the two princesses themselves. Her horn glowed as she used her royal magic to unlock the gate, and as she walked inside the enclosed section, it automatically closed itself, another security measure implemented into the magic gate to keep out anypony who didn't belong.
Since this section of the library was seldom used, layers of dust had settled on the shelves and exposed parts of the books. Luna thought she would start at the end of the furthest isle, and work her way to the center from there. As she quickly walked over to her determined starting point, she began to notice how dark it was getting since the lights were dimmer here, so she used her magic to act as a personal light.
She could quickly see why the books were in the forbidden section. Books like "The Most Efficient Ways To Kill Another Pony" or "How To Transform Into Another Pony, Without Being a Changeling!" were definitely not something she'd want everypony to have access to!
After searching for another twenty minutes or so, Luna finally found it. "An Alicorn's Guide to Necromancy" by Silver Dagger; even the name of the author wasn't very welcoming. She removed the somewhat small book from the faded wood shelf, and dropped it with a thud on the nearest table. She took a good look at the very interesting front cover. It had the title in blood red, with an illustration of a rotting pony's hoof protruding from the ground, with a grinning alicorn standing nearby. Luna wasn't expecting anything pleasant, however, so this didn't surprise her.
She quickly skimmed through the pages, most having a heading, such as Part III, Reforming The Entire Body with a stylish line underneath on the left page, and then a detailed illustration on the right page, depicting what the process, if done correctly, should look like.
After examining the book for a little bit longer, Luna decided that it was getting pretty late, and that, as much as she wanted to learn how to perform necromancy, she knew that she needed sleep. Luna used her magic to lift the book into her saddlebag, and began to make her way back to her bedroom. As she removed the rest of her royal clothing, hid the book in the bottom shelf of her drawer, and climbed into her warm bed, she did something she hadn't done in a while. She smiled at the thought of being with Blaze once again, and also dreamed of making love to him, making her happier than she could remember being in a long time. Tomorrow, she would be made whole again.
The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 3: An Alicorn's Guide To Necromancy
Luna's eyes slowly opened as she awoke from her very pleasant dream. As well as being content, Luna also felt more well rested than she had in a long time. As she remembered what she was planning to do today, she grinned widely and her heart was beating faster in lust. Luna decided that she'd now begin learning how to raise her dead lover.
Luna opened the bottom shelf of her drawer, where she had hid "An Alicorn's Guide to Necromancy" the night before, and opened to the first page. It appeared to be an acknowledgement to the reader. It read:
To The Alicorn Wishing To Learn Necromancy
Necromancy is an ancient form of magic, only usable by Alicorns, such as yourself, due to the extreme amount of magic they possess. Following the procedures in this book exactly, without doing one thing otherwise, is strongly recommended, due to the substantial amount of danger in the process. I personally thank you for taking an interest in my work; I have also written books on how to perform other types of Alicorn-specific magic. Enjoy, and please be careful. -Silver Dagger
After reading the now faded acknowledgement with mild interest, Luna eagerly turned to the next page, which seemed to be the table of contents. She then turned to the page with the first part, which read Part I: Strengthening The Skeleton
Depending on how long the pony has been deceased, their skeleton will be in various conditions, and therefore requires different amounts of strengthening.
Below this, there was a carefully drawn chart, with Amount of Years Deceased on the left, with values such as 10-50, 50-100, 100-250, 250-500, and 500 or more. On the right, it showed how long to perform the strengthening spell for each value. The illustration depicted a glistening skeleton of a pony, with absolutely no cracks or damage whatsoever.
Then, after studying the chart and whispering to herself the amount of time she'd have to perform the spell, she turned to the next page. This time, it was a much more detailed description, under the heading Part II: Regenerating the Internal Organs reading:
In order for the subject to function as they did once before, all of their organs will have to be regenerated, such as the brain, heart, lungs, intestines, and kidneys. Below is a step-by-step procedure on how to regenerate these organs. The drawing on the next page showed an alicorn lifting organs into a half empty skeleton of another pony, which definitely wasn't the most pretty thing Luna had seen.
Luna then saw a somewhat complicated spell she had never seen before, and, unlike the strengthening spell on the previous page that was familiar to her, this was entirely new. There was a variation of it for each organ she'd have to regenerate. When she saw this, Luna knew that this was going to take more than one day to learn, contradicting her previous belief. However, to Luna, this didn't matter. She was going to take as much time as necessary to bring Blaze back.
Right as she was about to turn to the next page, there was a quiet knock on her door, followed by a soft voice.
"Luna? It's Celestia, may I come in?"
Luna hesitantly said, "Of course, the door is unlocked."
As her sister walked in, Luna turned the book on it's back and placed it on her drawer, deciding not to try to hide it because that would only raise her sister's suspicion.
"Sister, I was thinking about last night, and how pushy I was getting, I apologize, I should have waited for you to calm down. Talking to you when you were sad like that, I shouldn't have done it. I realize that all I did was make things seem worse, I am truly sorry Luna. If there is any way I could make it up to you, please tell me." she said sincerely.
Still having her mind on the book, Luna had only half payed attention to what her sister just said, but she still understood what she meant in general.
"It's okay sister, I forgive you, though I am busy at the moment, I'd love to talk with you later though." Luna said quickly, hoping she didn't sound rude.
"I understand." Celestia said simply. She then turned to embrace Luna.
Luna accepted her into her hooves, and rested her chin on her sister's shoulder, feeling the warmth and comfort of her close body.
Celestia then stood up, and spoke, "I'll let you get back to what you're doing, please take care." And with that, she departed, feeling slightly better, now that she could at least talk to her sister while she wasn't bawling.
Luna then reached over for the book she had just been reading, and turned to the next page, headed Part III: Reforming The Entire Body , followed by a moderate description:
This is by far the most complicated process in performing Necromancy, as you cannot lose your focus for even a second, or the whole thing will be ruined completely. After this description, there are several pages going into great detail on how to perform every part, such as reforming the muscles, veins, arteries, and capillaries, as well as attaching them to the strengthened skeleton properly. The picture on the right was partly gruesome, showing a pony with it's muscles slowly wrapping themselves around the skeleton.
Luna's eyes widened when she saw how many different spells she had to cast, one after another, without losing her focus. And the several pages mentioned were actually most of the book itself. Promising to herself that she'd practice those spells later, she turned to the final part: Part IV: Providing Life . Luna had been wondering how she could give life to Blaze, since she knew any creature, even the powerful Alicorns, could not create self-sustaining life without reproducing. She then read the description below with great interest.
After completing all of the previous three steps without error, we come to the final step of the process of Necromancy; giving life to the subject. As you probably know, there is no possible way to create self-sustaining life, therefore, you must use your magic to keep the subject alive. Be warned, it- the rest was too badly faded to read. She got a little frightened for a moment, not knowing what the author had wanted to warn her about, but she decided there was nothing she could do about it. She also found it strange how that was the only badly faded part, even though the spell and illustration of a previously dead pony standing, were still very visible.
Now she would memorize these spells to the best of her ability, and, since she didn't have anything to practice on for the moment, prayed that she'd be successful.
The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 4: The Moment of Truth
Luna had spent every day for over two weeks trying her best to memorize the spells she'd need to know to resurrect Velocious Blaze. She had spent almost all of her time at her seldom used study in the corner of her bedroom, reading the spells over and over, and whenever she made a mistake, started over completely.
However, Luna was smart, and knew that if she spent every second of her time in her room, her sister would start to get suspicious, so she took frequent breaks walking around the castle, and helping Celestia with her royal duties. She even paid a visit to her friend Twilight, because she knew if she successfully brought Blaze back to life, he would be the only pony she'd be seeing for quite a while.
One night, as she was raising the moon, she was also reciting the spells she had spent so much time memorizing, and, when she got it perfectly without error, she knew it was time. She decided to go without wearing any of her royal jewelry, she knew how extravagant she looked to Blaze, no matter what. She started down the path to the old cemetery right on the edge of Canterlot.
Luna arrived at the cemetery Blaze had been buried at all those years ago. She opened the metallic gate with her magic, as well as keeping her horn lit, to see better in the gradually increasing darkness. There was a worn golden plaque on the stone beam to the right of the gate, reading:
Built on this foundation, as part of the beautiful town of Canterlot, is The Royal Canterlot Cemetery, resting place to the royalty of Equestria, and the extremely wealthy.
Underneath was the date of construction, more than 2,000 years ago, before Luna's time. She knew that among the ponies buried here were her parents. She also knew that Blaze was only buried here because of a request by Celestia herself; she always said it was the least she could do after what happened. Though he was the captain of the legendary Firebolts, he still lacked the extreme amounts of money the ponies buried here possessed. The well kept lawn and polished headstones were completely different from what you would find in a normal cemetery, where in many places, the grass was an overgrown mess, almost completely covering dull, weather beaten headstones.
After stopping at her parents' huge crypt, build out of polished granite encrusted with various jewels, including rubies, sapphires, emeralds, amethysts, and diamonds to pay her respects, as she always did, Luna went to the gravestone of her love. As she was reading the inscriptions on the stone, as she had done many times before, to the point of memorizing them, she had a flashback. It was of the time she found out how Blaze died at such a young age.
It had been about a week after she had returned to her true form. She and her sister were standing at Blaze's grave, after Luna had asked how he died.
"Sister, please follow me to the Royal Canterlot Cemetery, I'll explain there." said Celestia.
This had puzzled Luna. As much as she had cherished Blaze, why would he be buried at the place royalty such as her parents were? He was a middle class pegasus, his parents were mere weather patrol ponies.
"You see Luna, after I banished Nightmare Moon, well, Blaze..." she stuttered.
"Yes? I want to know, please!" Luna begged.
"It's very sad, I'm not sure if you could handle it Luna, perhaps-" Celestia was cut off.
"NO! TELL ME! I HAVE TO KNOW!" Luna shouted, tears pooling at the corners of her eyes.
Celestia decided there was no use in holding back the truth from Luna, and took a deep breath.
"Blaze requested my presence, and he met with me in the great hall of the castle. I was surprised to see him with tears in his eyes; I had never seen a pony as strong as him cry before. He then begged me to bring you back, saying how he couldn't bear spending any more time without you. As painful as it was doing so, I told him how there was no more Luna, only Nightmare Moon. Blaze didn't take this well at all..." Celestia paused as she noticed that Luna had started crying ever so softly. She waited a few moments, looking at Luna uncertainly, until she said, "Please, go on, I'm fine."
Taking another quivering breath, Celestia said, "In blind rage, Blaze charged at me, before he could even get close, my guards brought him down, shouting at him to stand down. I was about to use a stunning spell on him, but he had begun to fight back at the guards, and, in self-defense, one of their swords mortally wounded him. As soon as I saw his blood, I ran over, but it was too late; he was bleeding too quickly for me to stop it." She stopped because Luna's bawling was drowning out her own soft, though unsteady voice. Once Luna had stopped shuddering so much, Celestia decided that she'd finish it, Luna had to know how much Blaze cared.
"And, right before he passed, he looked up as me, and whispered, 'Thank You'. That was the last thing he ever said. Knowing how much he meant to you, I had him buried in this Cemetery." Celestia finished.
Luna had been sobbing almost the entire time, and Celestia hugged her tightly, allowing her smaller sibling to cry into her flowing mane, not caring how wet and matted it was getting. As painful as it was to say all of this, she knew that it was all for the best. Her beautiful, innocent little sister deserved to know everything, she thought.
"Thank you, so much." Luna whispered, her face still buried in her elder sister's mane.
Luna had hidden a shovel under a partially uprooted tree located near Blaze's grave. She used her magic to retrieve it, and, with any uncertain thoughts cast away, began digging.
"Imagine what people would think if they saw their princess digging up a grave!" Luna said to herself, laughing dryly, as she dug even more.
As she heard a hard thunk , she knew she had reached Blaze's coffin. She used her magic yet again to lift it out of the hole she had just dug, and took a good look. Blaze's simple cutie mark: A blue, orange, yellow, and red flame, representing how scorching fast he was, was on the front in chipped paint. After taking a deep breath, she opened the coffin with a long creak.
What she saw was a skeleton so cracked and brittle, she thought it could blow away in a slight breeze. She could hardly believe how this was once the blindingly fast and strong pony who she loved. She had to get this over with, there was no turning back now. She cast the strengthening spell for as long as the book instructed to, until there was not one single crack. Now the inside of Blaze's skeleton was complete, though Luna left the top of the skull and ribs open for where she'd have to place the organs. Now that the skeleton wasn't so weak that it would blow away in the wind, she lifted it out of the coffin and onto the soft grass, as well as placing the coffin itself back in the hole.
Now she reached the hardest part, remembering how to regenerate every organ exactly. Her horn glowed bright blue with intensity as she put her memory to the test. She thought of nothing else while doing this, and she placed in each organ, starting with the brain, until his skeleton was full of them. What was now infront of her made her want to be sick, the skeletal frame of her lover filled with real organs, it was revolting, but she didn't let this horrid sight stop her. It was time to reform the rest of his body.
As complicated as this next spell seemed, it wasn't nearly as difficult as the previous one for Luna. Instead of having to remember a completely different one for each organ, as in the last, this was one long spell. She pointed her horn at what was soon to be the Blaze she remembered, and ignored her light blue mane falling in front of her eyes. She knew this.
As she recited the spell inside of her head, she didn't even look as the ribs and skull closed up over the organs inside, and muscles, and veins were quickly and efficiently wrapping themselves around the bone. Once the skin and slick black fur started covering up the exposed muscles, she began to look up. By the time her eyes made full contact, besides the finishing touches being added to his cutie mark, everything was there. His dark body, vivid flame colored mane and tail, and gold eyes were present. Unlike most Pegasi, Blaze's under feathers on his wings were also flame colored; so when he flew at fast speeds, it created the illusion that flames were trailing him because of his extreme speed. As the last preened feather was in place, Luna knew she had done everything right so far; now she just had to bring him to life.
However, before she performed the final step, she realized something. If this worked, and she prayed it would, how would he react to seeing his own gravestone, let alone being in a cemetery? She used her magic to levitate the pile of dirt she had made back into the hole, and flattened it. To make it look like nothing had ever happened, she even removed the grass from the corner of the cemetery to cover the bare dirt above Blaze's now empty grave. She then levitated his limp body right in front of her as she made her way to a clearing outside of Canterlot.
Luna had found a small, peaceful clearing just to the south of Canterlot, she decided this would be a good place for Blaze to wake up if this happened to work at all. Because of the heavy darkness of the night, she used her magic to cast a bright blue ball of light into the air above her, so she, and hopefully Blaze as well, would be able to see eachother. Now it was time. Now was the moment that would show if her millennium of despair would come to an end. She quickly remembered the simple spell which would allow her to transfer her magic to Blaze's body, closed her eyes, and, with an abnormal white light coming from her horn, cast the incantation. Then, the center of Blaze's chest, where his heart was, glowed bright white, and then it slowly died down, until it wasn't visible anymore.
Luna had been standing completely still, staring with anticipation. After about thirty seconds, she started to be in disbelief that this was going to work at all. A few seconds more, and a few tears slid down her cheeks. After about two minutes, she had begun crying loudly, not caring if anypony heard her. She turned around, not wanting to look at her lifeless love, and buried her face in her hooves, when suddenly she heard a voice from behind her.
"Luna?"
To be continued...
The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 5: The Blissful Reunion (Mature)
No, that couldn't have just been Blaze she heard. Perhaps it had been someone like her sister, or she could have just been imagining it. She slowly began to turn around, not believing what she saw in front of her.
The pitch black pegasus with a flame colored mane and tail, and knowing golden eyes from her dreams was looking directly at her, quite inquisitively.
"Bl.. Blaze?" Luna asked, stupefied.
He stepped closer, ignoring the fact that he was in a clearing, and said "Luna, I'm here for you. I don't know what exactly just happened to bring you back from the moon and me from almost dying, but please tell me…why are you crying?"
Luna ignored his question and instead ran into his open hooves, unable to control her emotions.
"Blaze! Blaze! Blaze...is it really you?" she asked, almost afraid to hope against all hope.
"Yes, it's me, my love. I am glad to see that your sister healed me and then brought you back, I knew in her heart she wanted to!" Blaze declared as he ran his hooves through Luna's beautiful deep blue mane.
Luna looked up into Blaze's caramel colored eyes, and willingly brought her lips closer to his, until they were an inch from them, so she could feel his warm breath upon her face. She craved his love after all of these years. Following a few more moments of crying onto his shoulder, she looked up at him.
"Don't worry about it Blaze. Now that you're here, I'll never have reason to cry again," Luna said, fluttering her eyelids. And with that, she pressed her lips against his.
Blaze happily accepted her advance, and pressed his lips harder against hers, sensing her loving and longing emotions within. They kissed for a good minute, then Blaze wrapped his hooves around Luna's neck, not wanting it to end. A few moments later, they pulled apart, both feeling refreshed after not expressing their love for 1,000 years, though to Blaze it felt like a mere number of days.
They shared another passionate kiss. As the kiss deepened, Luna lightly nudged her tongue against his lips, hoping he knew what she wanted. The two shared a few soft moans, and Blaze knew exactly what his princess desired. Happily, he opened his mouth, and their tongues met, sharing a truly intriguing dance. The once parted lovers, enjoyed rediscovering the taste of each other’s mouth. Slowly their wings started outstretching in response to their growing arousal.
Luna no longer cared about anything, except her newly resurrected lover. She felt the passion burning inside of her as she twirled her tongue with his. At the same moment, Blaze had been feeling the same and wanted nothing but to be with Luna, forever.
Their intimate moment had concluded, and Luna could hardly believe this was happening, she gave Blaze a slight squeeze just to make sure this wasn't a dream. Because of his smaller frame, he temporarily grew short of breath, and exhaled onto Luna's face. However, this hardly broke his concentration from staring into her luscious eyes.
After returning his gaze, Luna coaxed him to lay on his back and gracefully dropped to the ground beside him. She gradually made her way down Blaze’s belly, planted a series of kisses along the way. The mare arrived at her lover’s lengthening stallionhood, and gave it a few short kisses causing him to take a gasping breath in surprise.
Ripples of pleasure raced up Blaze’s back, causing him to cast out a pleasurable sigh while Luna gently moved her mouth along his member. She could feel her marehood tingling in excitement while she continued. After a few more moments of pleasing him, she looked up at him, knowing how much he must have wanted to be inside of her. As true as this was, Blaze thought it only would be fair if he could pleasure Luna, as she had just done to him. The two switched positions, this time with Blaze over Luna. He began kissing her belly gently, as well as doing the same to her large outstretched wings.
When Blaze was planting light kisses on the underside of her wings, Luna shuddered in pleasure. After a few moments more, Blaze arrived at her aroused marehood, running his hoof along her curves slowly, causing her to moan loudly in her ecstatically filled state. A short while after, Blaze began running his tongue up and down along Luna's crease, and every time he reached her sensitive tip, Luna gasped in happiness.
As much as Luna was enjoying what Blaze was doing, she wanted to have him inside of her, to maximize the pleasure between both of them.
Luna said lovingly as she caught her breath, "Please, take me." Hearing her words, Blaze could not decline such an offer. He laid her down, giving her another tender kiss upon her lips, before moving downward to her now moistened folds. He slowly slid his stallionhood inside of his eternal love, causing her to moan softly yet audibly. Luna could not remember the last time she had felt this way, but she didn't care; because she was feeling it now, and that was all that mattered.
Placing his hooves lovingly along her shoulders, Blaze took a deep breath and began moving on her. A sensual motion formed between then and gradually intensified. Their breath started to deepen and they each could hear the other make tender moans of bliss. A short time passed and Luna started feeling a tingling sensation in her erogenous zone. Blaze could tell she was getting closer from the twitching of her body. He soon noticed a distinct sensation building in his nether region.
Luna could feel the heightening sensation below as she shared another kiss with Blaze. He could hardly restrain himself anymore – his need for release was becoming too great. A few moments passed, and it finally happened. The two felt a powerful sensation storm throughout their bodies. With the epicenter focused along the point of their blissful union.
Blaze unsteadily laid next to a smiling Luna. She couldn’t remember when she had been happier in her entire life. What Blaze and she had just done, would be something she’d remember and cherish forever. The couple gazed sleepily into each other's eyes. Neither of them knew the exact time, but Luna guessed it must have been at least two in the morning.
"That was unbelievable, Luna." Blaze said still lightly panting for air.
"I…agree," was all Luna could manage in between breaths. "Blaze, please come closer," she said, feeling her eyelids drooping.
Blaze shuffled over to his waiting lover, and they wrapped their hooves around each other, sharing perhaps the most passionate kiss yet. Then a few minutes later, the two fell peacefully asleep in each other's tender embrace.
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.
The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 7: The End to a Millennium of Guilt
The relieved alicorn flew up next to the black pegasus, passing through a silky cloud, smiling as she saw how much he seemed to be enjoying himself.
"Wow Luna, you won't believe how great this feels," he exclaimed, stretching his wings as wide as he could. "Not flying for so long really makes you feel stiff!" he said as he released the tension in his joints.
"I'm glad you're comfortable again, Blaze." Luna replied with a smile as she saw the love of her life having such a great time.
Blaze took a temporary pause from his cheerful moment, and looked over at Luna, noticing how she wore a worried expression on her face. He would not tolerate seeing his love like this, and almost instanty, he asked:
"Luna, my dearest, what's bugging you? I can see that you have something troublesome on your mind."
Knowing that Blaze would notice, Luna didn't hesitate to reply, and simply said "It's just that I'm not sure how Celestia will react to seeing you. After all, she is the only other pony besides me who is old enough to remember you."
"Well, she is very forgiving, I'm sure it won't be too bad. Doesn't she always want to see you happy?" Blaze inquired.
"Yes, though as true as that is, she still blames herself for your death. I know my sister very well, but honestly I don't know what to expect." Luna replied with a long sigh.
"We're just going to have to find out, together." Blaze said, placing his hoof in Luna's, causing her to look into his understanding eyes.
"Oh Blaze, you were always so supportive, no matter what the circumstances. That's just another reason of why you're different from every other pony in Equestria." she said as she moved in for a hug.
Blaze accepted her intention, and turned himself sideways so that he was facing her, allowing their their mid-air embrace to be a successful one. Luna placed her head on Blaze's shoulder, feeling relaxed in the softness of his fur. After the initial embrace, she pulled back, so that they were still holding hooves, and then moved in again for an emotional kiss. She began moving her tongue more into his mouth, and was surprised when his met hers before she could even get past his teeth. Their tongues entwined for a few moments more, both of them relishing the sweet taste. After a few more seconds of the tender moment, they separated.
"Wow, did I ever tell you how great of a kisser you were?" Blaze asked with a suggestive grin.
Luna chuckled, "Yes Blaze, many times. I would say the exact same about you."
Resuming his previous flight direction towards the royal castle resting on the towering mountainside, Blaze smiled devilishly as he said "I can't wait until tonight, Luna."
"Well then, that was quite a way to describe how I'm feeling as well!" Luna said, laughing at Blaze's directness.
Sighting her castle, Luna began her descent towards the front gates, with Blaze following closely behind.
As she touched down on the smooth stone road, a guard bowed to her, before exclaiming:
"Princess Luna, welcome back home! However, your sister has been worried about you, since you weren't here last night."
Luna rolled her eyes. As lovable as her sister was, she did seem overprotective at times, especially over Luna's whereabouts.
"Well, I'm back now. Thank you for passing on the information, you may rise." Luna commanded.
As Blaze trotted slowly behind her, the two main guards crossed their spears, barring his path.
"And who may you be? You don't belong here; you can't just follow the princess wherever she goes! Get away before this gets worse!" one of the guards said forcefully.
"I can assure you, I'm with her, in fact, we're in love!" Blaze said nervously.
Luna's anger swelled as she heard her own guards talking to him like that.
"You're just sick, saying stuff like that, you don't deserve to be in her presence, you disgust me." the other guard said as he spit in Blaze's face, completely out of conduct, before raising his spear slightly.
She couldn't let history repeat itself. This is what made Luna snap.
"ENOUGH!" she yelled in her loudest voice, breaking the spears aimed at Blaze like mere twigs with her magic, causing the two strict guards to gasp in surprise, and begin shaking in terror.
"BOTH OF YOU, STAND DOWN, NOW ." she shouted, causing them to bow down in complete shock.
Luna walked in front of them, gazing at them hatefully, wanting to fire them right there on the spot, until she felt a gentle touch on her shoulder. She saw the handsome face of Blaze, and he was shaking his head.
"Luna, I know what you want to do, and please don't. They didn't know, and were only doing their job." he said softly, feeling the tightness of Luna's muscles under his hoof.
"But.. but they were going to attack, and I can't let you die again! Not now, you've only been back for a day, not EVER!" Luna screamed, burying her face in his vivid mane, crying yet again.
This caused the guards to murmur in huge surprise when Luna said this.
"Shhhhhh... It's going to be alright, I'm here; I always will be." Blaze said soothingly as he patted her shaking body, trying his best to comfort her.
As the worse of the shaking stopped, Blaze kissed his love lightly on the lips, but she still remained in his embrace, her body still shuddering.
"I- I just got so scared. I couldn't live with losing you again." Luna said as a few more tears soaked through Blaze's mane, darkening it considerably.
"Th- thank you, sir." The closest guard said unsteadily as he was still recovering from the initial fear of losing his job.
At this, Blaze simply nodded.
There was a sound of quickly moving hooves on the pavement closest to the castle's entrance, followed by a worried voice exclaiming:
"Luna? I was so worried! What happen-" An anxious Celestia stopped as she looked at the pegasus holding her sister, her jaw dropping.
No, that couldn't be him. It wasn't possible. But what other black pegasus had that flame for a cutie mark, fiery underfeathers, and was in love with her sister? As much as she couldn't believe it, it was Blaze.
After Luna stopped her crying, she separated from Blaze, and after giving him a nod, he waved his right hoof, saying, "Hey Celestia, long time no see!" Causing a previously frightened Luna to smile at Blaze's attitude in their current situation.
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Now that she wasn't being overcome with complete fear and worry, Luna wasn't at all afraid of how her sister had just seen Blaze; she knew it was inevitable.
"Mind if I explain, in private?" Luna asked softly.
"Ye- yes. I think that would be a good idea." a still suprised and uncomprehending Celestia answered.
Luna opened her wings to their full extent, and left the ground, heading towards her royal bedroom, with Blaze and Celestia following in her rear. Celestia had noticed the two guards who had their spears broken in half and were cowering on the ground, but she decided not to ask about it, assuming that it had something to do with Luna's outburst, which she could here from inside of the castle walls.
As they landed on her reinforced dark blue, sparkling glass balcony, she motioned for them to come inside, closing the large doors behind her. With a echoing click from the lock of the doors, they were now alone. Celestia hesitantly shifted her gaze to an awkward feeling Blaze.
"So, I'm assuming you are probably wondering how Blaze is here after being dead for so long?" Luna asked with a sigh.
"I- I just can't believe it. It's Velocious Blaze, it's actually him. How did you do it Luna?" Celestia said, not revealing her suspicion at the moment.
"If you really want to know, it's because I was growing tired of being miserable all the time. I wanted to have back the only pony that cares about me, other than you, of course sis. I used necromancy to bring him back from the grave, and let me tell you, he's still perfect." Luna explained to her sister, confirming Celestia's suspicions.
"I was thinking that you used Necromancy, since I can't think of any other explanation. I'm not an expert on that specific type of magic, having never tried to learn it myself, but I know that it can be dangerous if not performed with the utmost precision." Celestia warned, worrying for her sister.
"Well obviously it worked didn't it? And no matter how dangerous, it brought the love of my life back, and that's all that matters." Luna said, a bit angry.
Being taken aback slightly by her sister's sudden curt reply, Celestia decided she should say what she had wanted to for a thousand years, having the chance taken from her while Blaze passed on. She drew a quivering breath, and spoke.
"Velocious Blaze, I'm so sorry for everything, taking you away from Luna. I was too quick to act, and didn't think of how it would affect you. And when you died.." Celestia had delicate tears forming at the corners of her violet eyes, dampening the white fur beneath. "I not only felt horrible for you, dying at such a young age, but also for my sister, who would live isolated on the moon for many centuries not knowing that you died seeking to be with her again, and assuming that you lived a full, happy life." Celestia finished, looking away, tears wetting the rug beneath as they fell from her face. She was surprised when a hoof affectionately touched her saddened face.
"Celestia, please don't blame yourself for my death. The way I acted in my rage, I was basically asking for it. I just couldn't live without my beloved Luna by my side." he said sincerely, planting a light kiss on the top of her head.
Luna of course didn't mind this, since Blaze always seemed to know exactly what to do in almost any situation.
Celestia looked up at Blaze as he retracted his hoof, smiling.
"Thank you for your forgiveness. You have singlehoofingly ended my millennium of guilt." Celestia excalimed, extremely relieved.
"I'm glad you feel better now Celestia." Blaze said softly.
Now that Celestia had been ridden of her guilt, Luna felt glad for her sister once again. However, she then remembered how she was going to wash up, but then she had a more interesting thought. She would care for her teeth, but then use a simple freshening spell to last until the evening, and then she and Blaze would recline and have a pleasurable time washing eachother in her royal bath. The thought itself made her feel a bit aroused!
Her stomach growled from not having food for about a day, but she knew what would be perfect.
"Hey sis, do you want to have a private dinner with me and Blaze, so we can talk a bit more later?" Luna offered.
"Of course Luna, it would be my pleasure to share such a moment with you, and having the chance to talk more with Blaze after such a long time, it sounds great!" Celestia exclaimed a bit excitedly.
The lack of her sister's normally laid back attitude temporarily caused a look of surprise to appear on her face for a few seconds, but she just smiled afterwards.
"Blaze, feel free to get yourself comfortable in my room, I'm going to go brush my teeth, would you like to as well?" Luna asked nicely.
Taking a look in the mirror at his newly formed teeth, which were glistening pure white, he said:
"I think it'll be fine for now, but I'll be waiting for you, and would you like to take a walk around the castle before we eat this evening?" Blaze inquired, wanting to have some more time with his lover before in the presence of Celestia once again.
"How could I refuse? Oh, and, Blaze?" Luna asked seductively.
"Yes?"
"I can't wait until tonight."
The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 8: Laughter and Sorrow
After cleaning her perfectly straight teeth and looking at her mirror, Luna smiled at her reflection. Sure, her mane was a bit messy, but other than that, she preferred her more natural appearance, without her royal shoes, necklace, or crown; and since she wasn't going to be in the presence of any of her subjects at the dinner, she decided not to put them back on. She grinned once again at how pretty she looked without having to rely on things like make up or her attire.
As she trotted out of her bathroom, she freshened herself up with the spell she was planning on using from earlier, causing the lingering odor from her sweat to vanish, and the dried dirt somewhat visible on her flank to be covered with magic, making it look as if it wasn't there at all, also showing the true appearance of her dark blue, velvety soft fur and crescent moon cutie marks.
In the meantime, Blaze was also staring at himself in the mirror next to Luna's study. He knew how, attractive he was, but he would never let that make him become stuck up about it. As he was viewing himself in his favorite pose, all four legs spread, rear slightly upwards, and wings extended, showing his beautifully glistening underfeathers, he heard Luna chuckling softly behind him.
"I know you're very handsome, and I assume that's why you were checking yourself out just now." Luna said jokingly, guilty of just having done the same.
"What? I wasn't-" Blaze trailed off, not knowing what to say, feeling exposed. "Well, you're the most beautiful mare in Equestria, so I bet you do it too!" he said a bit loudly, but very truthfully.
When Luna heard this, she sighed dreamily at the pegasus, who to her was the epitome of kindness. She smiled widely, showing her pearly white teeth, ran over to Blaze and embraced him tightly. She loved his thoughtful nature. She then slowly moved her lips into his, for a brief, but very passionate kiss. She stayed there for a few moments more, feeling Blaze fondling her luscious mane. Blaze could also taste the minty flavor inside of her mouth, causing him to enjoy the moment even more.
"I love you so much, Blaze, and I am sure that there is not one stallion who is as handsome or who has your perfect personality." Luna whispered, brushing her cheek against his as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Feeling warm inside from her comment, Blaze looked steadily into her eyes, lovingly.
"Luna, I don't know if I'm that good looking, but thank you for your niceness." He spoke modestly.
"Ah, such the gentlecolt! Now, what do you say we go for that walk? We still have a few hours, it's only noon." Luna explained.
"Of course my love, but what will we do in the hours after our stroll?" Blaze inquired, wanting to know what the alicorn had in mind.
Luna hadn't really thought it through, but then she had a sudden idea.
"How would you feel about meeting my friend Twilight? I'm sure she'd be very interested to hear how you returned, since her skill and interest in Magic is unparalleled." She asked, wanting to make sure this was alright with Blaze.
"Whatever you would like, dear." Blaze exclaimed as he flew over in front of Luna, holding the door open for her, bowing slightly, causing Luna to giggle softly to herself.
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The couple had been walking through the long, beautifully crafted corridors of the magnificent palace, Luna explaining where everything was and what their purpose was to Blaze. The castle's architecture never ceased to amaze Blaze.
Soon, they reached the gigantic, perfectly kept garden. Nobody was here, but that wasn't too surprising; the place was seldom visited by more than two or three ponies at a time. Luna sighed, it's beauty always got to her. The evenly trimmed hedges made to look like famous ponies in history, multicolored flowers that smelled as good as they looked, and just the serenity of it made her feel at ease; she sometimes came here when she was feeling stressed.
"Wow, it sure is beautiful, but nowhere near as much as you." Blaze said with the utmost kindness.
Smiling sincerely at her love, Luna spoke the truth.
"I like to come here when I'm sad or distressed, but no pony except my sister knows. They wouldn't understand, they probably think that my only interest is the moon, hence my name. But the only thing I think of when I look at it is," Luna paused to take a breath, "My millennium of imprisonment, without anypony to talk to. Without my parents, or you, who both died while I was there. I- I never got to say goodbye." She whimpered as her voice broke, a warm tear rolling down her cheek, dampening the flat grass beneath her.
Seeing the tear, Blaze rushed over to Luna, cradling her head in his hooves. She continued to speak, not caring of how hard it was on her throat.
"Because of my anger and wrongful use of my power, I had to be without the few ponies I ever cared for. Because of me, you, who was full of potential for living a long and happy life, were killed when you were so young. It's all my fault!" Luna croaked, vision watery from her tears, turned her face into Blaze's chest, weeping once again.
Blaze ran a hoof through her mane, tearing up himself. "I- I can't stand to see you like this, please Luna. It wasn't your fault, nothing ever was, your sister just couldn't think of any other thing to do." he said, holding back the many tears trying to come through, making his eyes sore and red.
Luna noticed the lack of the usual firmness in Blaze's voice, and looked up to see him on the verge of tears. She knew that almost nothing made him like this, except if she was extremely sad herself.
"Oh no, Blaze..." she whispered, forgetting her sadness. "Please, don't cry."
"It- It's just that I hate seeing you crying. A mare as beautiful and delicate as you, it breaks my heart to see you be anything but content." he spoke.
Hearing his words, Luna's love for him expanded even more. She pushed her lips into his, not hesitating to press into his mouth, finding his tongue. Blaze sighed in pleasure and relief, and loved how he had made her feel so much better. He twirled his tongue in her mouth. After they separated to take a quick breath, they continued the kiss, Luna moaning into Blaze's mouth. She wanted to make love to him right now, but after thinking about it, she knew it would be wiser and more beneficial to the pleasure of them both if they waited until tonight.
Blaze looked a bit surprised as Luna pulled away, standing up. Honestly he was expecting to make love to her.
"Tonight, my love." Luna said seductively, a bit sorry with herself should she have disappointed him.
"Then I am anticipating it greatly!" Blaze said as he stood up, stretching his wings. "Would you like to continue showing me around the castle?"
"I'm not sure to be honest." Luna spoke, looking at the other end of the garden they hadn't even visited yet. "Maybe we could-" Luna stopped as she turned back around, noticing Blaze's sudden absence.
"What the-" She said, not knowing where he could have gone off to, until she felt a laugh inducing sensation in her side.
"Ha, got you!" Blaze said as he flew backwards quickly, having just tickled Luna out of nowhere.
Laughing, Luna responded, "Not for long!" She quickly took to the air, still a bit surprised at Blaze's sudden act, but determined to get him back.
"Come on, where'd you go?" Luna asked loudly, not getting a response.
Instinctively, she turned around, catching Blaze in the act of preparing to tickle her again. She pushed away his hooves, and instead tickled him repeatedly in his chest, causing him to burst out laughing.
"Lu- Luna! St- stop, please! Hahahahaha!" He yelled as he cracked up, not being able to control his laughter.
Luna paused, allowing him to breath, but quickly regretted it. Still low to the ground, Blaze flew into her, gently tackling her onto the grass. Like a small colt, he put his lips on Luna's belly, and blew air, causing a very funny sound to be made, and Luna laughing like she hadn't ever done before.
"Bl- Blaze! Haha! You- you're so much fun!" Luna exclaimed, squealing in delight as he blew on her chest again.
However, she wasn't going to let him win just yet, and rolled over so that she was on top of him, looking down at a now defenseless Blaze, hooves pinned to the grass. He looked up at her, helpless, but smiling. He could do nothing but squirm in excitement when she used her magic to keep his hooves pinned, tickled him and blew on his chest all at once.
After doing so, she stopped her magic, the blue aura around his hooves disappearing, and leaned on top of him, squeezing him tightly in a loving hug.
"That... was... so fun!" Blaze said, panting.
"It sure was!" Luna said, giggling like a filly. "Now, I think we should see Twilight, if you don't mind!"
Standing up and brushing the grass off his fur, he responded, "Sure thing, this Twilight sounds like an interesting pony."
"Oh, she sure is!" Luna said in response. "Follow me, I'll show you the quickest way to her house."
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As the library built into a giant tree came into view, Blaze wondered how a pony could enjoy being constantly surrounded by books, or even want to live in a library.
As they touched down on the ground, Luna knocked thrice on the door. It then opened, revealing a violet unicorn with multicolored mane and tail, and a purple star surrounded by smaller white ones for a cutie mark.
"Oh, princess! I wasn't expecting you, please forgive me if my house is unkempt." She said quickly.
"Twilight, it's understandable. I didn't tell you ahead of time, so there's no way you could have known. And we're friends, you can call me Luna. Have I interrupted anything?"
"N- no.. I was just reading a book about magic for five hours." Twilight said, unusually shy, changing Blaze's previous thoughts of how a pony could want to live in a library completely.
"Twilight, is something wrong?" Luna said worryingly.
"No, I was just wondering who that stallion with you was? He reminds me of one I read about from a history book, the captain of the Firebolts, I think. I'm not sure what, was it Velocious Blaze?"
"Pleased to meet you!" Blaze said. "I'm glad to here I was significant enough to be in a book!"
"Wait... what? You're him?" Twilight said, taking a step back. "But.. you died a thousand years ago."
Luna quickly intervened, not wanting to scare her friend.
"Oh Twilight, don't be afraid. Blaze is my life-long love. I missed him so much that I brought him back with an ancient forbidden form of magic known as Necromancy, if you've heard of it." Luna explained, having just revealed everything to Twilight.
"Wha- what? Please come inside, we'll talk there." Twilight said, uncomprehending.
Luna thanked the violet mare, and trotted inside, taking a seat on a couch, holding Blaze's hoof in hers as he took a spot next to her.
"As involved as I am in magic, I have never heard of this so called 'necromancy.' But Luna, I never knew you had a lover! That's excellent, he's real lucky to have you!" She said with a legitimate smile.
"I sure am." Blaze said with a loving sigh, looking into Luna's eyes.
Wow... they really seemed to be in love, Twilight thought to herself, forgetting all of the weird thoughts she had, not minding that the pegasus in front of her had been in the ground for a millennium.
"I'm glad to see how much you love each other, why did you want to see me anyways, if I may ask? Shouldn't you be spending time with each other, alone?" Twilight asked.
"Trust me Twilight, we'll be doing a lot of that. But you, being one of the few ponies who is actually my friend, should know, instead of finding out yourself. I also wanted to know if you'd be free sometime tomorrow? I was thinking that me, Blaze, you, your friends, and possibly even the Wonderbolts could get together, maybe for lunch or so?" Luna asked, just having the thought then.
"Sure, I'll ask them. I'll make sure to tell Pinkie not to throw a huge party, that would hardly be necessary, I think Blaze would prefer a smaller group." Twilight said thoughtfully.
"Thank you Twilight," she said sincerely, giving her a soft smile.
"Blaze, is this okay with you?" Luna asked her love.
"Of course, it sounds perfect!" He replied.
For a few hours more, Luna and Blaze remained at Twilight's house, sharing with her any information she wanted to know, and just having a good time. Looking at the wooden clock on Twilight's wall, she noticed it was almost time for dinner with Celestia.
Getting up, Luna said, "Sorry Twilight, but I'm afraid we're going to have to go for tonight. It was really fun talking with you! The time just flew by!" Luna exclaimed happily.
"You too Luna, see you tomorrow, and have fun with Blaze!" Twilight said kindly.
"I will, bye!" Luna said, along with Blaze.
Closing the door, Luna took flight, and went back to the castle with Blaze to have a very delicious dinner, and an even more exciting time afterwards with Blaze.
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The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 10: An Unexpected Turn of Events (Mature At Beginning)
The radiant glow of the morning sun slowly made it's way into the bedroom, being beautifully reflected across the room by the glass windows. The room was specially designed this way so that it would "capture" the light of the sun, and even the moon.
Luna's eyes slowly fluttered open as she awoke from a very peaceful sleep. Despite the fact that she got a very good rest, there was a trace of lingering tiredness in the back of her mind, but it was barely there, and by ignoring it, it just about disappeared, so she decided not to worry about it. She found that her hooves were wrapped around Blaze's toned body, therefore were very warm from the heat of it. Luna looked up at him; his face was towards her, and he was sleeping lightly, his mane hanging in front of his eyes slightly. The alicorn then thought of how much her life had changed in only two days. For the time in which she was sent to the moon to after she came back, she had felt miserable. Now, she was in bed with her eternal love for which she would give anything to be with. She smiled widely at her fortune, and kissed him on the lips gently, trying not to wake him up; she thought she'd allow him to rest as she made minor preparations concerning her appearance, since she wanted to look her best for Twilight and her friends today.
However, as she slowly inched her way from out of the bed covers, she heard a quiet voice, which she instantly knew was from Blaze.
"Good morning my love, don- don't-" he stopped as he let out a long yawn. "Don't feel bad about waking me, I was barely asleep." he spoke, moving closer to her. "That was a very good kiss, considering you thought I wouldn't be awake to feel it."
Luna smiled and moved back over to him from her half-out of bed position, and slowly pulled his head towards hers, causing their lips to meet for a tender kiss. Blaze sighed in content as he kissed her, holding her dearly. He slowly pulled away and took a long look at her, admiring her extreme beauty.
"What did I do to deserve you?" he asked lovingly.
"You were yourself, and treated me like nopony else..." Luna said, nuzzling his cheek with hers affectionately.
"I want to be able to spend every moment of my life with you, forever." He said, being nothing but entirely truthful with himself.
"I wouldn't have it any other way..." Luna responded, looking directly into his deep golden eyes.
The black pegasus continued staring at her, when he suddenly remembered something. "Aren't we supposed to see Twilight and her friends today?" He asked quickly, hoping Luna didn't forget, and, realizing she didn't as no shocked expression made itself visible upon her face, relaxed.
"Yes, I was about to say so myself, shall we go? We don't need to eat here, I'm sure Pinkie Pie and Applejack will have brought some of their delicious food to the get together." Luna said as she quickly straightened her mane with her magic, not bothering to wear her crown or jewelry, since all the ponies who she would be meeting she knew personally, especially the Wonderbolts, being her personal flight team.
Blaze, instead of agreeing right at that moment, moved even closer to her, so that his relaxed breaths warmed her neck whenever he exhaled. "Oh, Luna... before we do that, would you like to.. have some more fun?" he inquired suggestively, looking directly at her with those passion filled eyes of his that Luna loved.
Luna giggled at this, and replied, "Well, we do have a few hours, considering that I planned to meet with Twilight at her house around noon. However, she very much prefers to stay on schedule, so if you don't mind dear, we shouldn't wear ourselves out too much."
"Mhm..." Blaze mumbled, rubbing her chest slowly. So is it fine if I cause you to orgasm once? I know that mares can do so multiple times in a row... so that shouldn't be too exhausting for you." He asked, getting excited gradually, his heart thumping in his chest at a quickening rate and his wings beginning to twitch in early arousal.
"Oh, I definitely don't mind, but what is the occasion?" She asked, because Blaze was quite often extremely tired and not in the mood for anything in the mornings, to the point of where he'd sleep in until his necessary flight practice.
"It is a reward, my dear love. A reward for being you, for being the best thing ever to happen to me, and giving my life true meaning." he spoke softly with a genuine smile, blushing a little bit.
At that moment, Luna felt like melting in complete happiness, and she let out a quiet squee as she slowly reached out her hoof. Blaze kissed it gently and then pressed his against hers, looking directly into the dark alicorn's beautiful blue eyes. She stared back at him, slightly teary.
"I... I can't express how much I love you. It's more than anything in all of Equestria, for sure. I don't deserve you." she spoke, a few tears of joy running down her cheeks.
Blaze wiped them away with his hoof, speechless for the moment, and spoke, "I could say the same about you. Everything about you is perfect. The most beautiful mare in the world, always thoughtful, selfless, and... the one who went out of her way to get to know me for who I really am. I love you so much, more than my love for flying, times infinity. I.. don't know what I'd do if I lost you again." Blaze said, tearing up himself.
"I.. can't even-" Luna stopped and went forward, kissing him with as much of the infinite amount of admiration she felt for him as she could muster. She wasted no time in pushing her tongue into his mouth, and tasting him.
The two stayed together like that for a few moments, and right as pulled apart, Blaze gave her a grin. Luna gasped as she felt his tongue slowly sucking around the base of her horn, and tiny kisses being planted around that area as well.
"Oh... I almost forgot about that." She whispered slowly with a sharp intake of air as he continued treating the base with the dexterity of his tongue and hit a sweet spot.
Luna felt her wings spreading already from the pleasure being brought to her, and her horn was glowing dimly from the stimulation. Her feathery appendages extended completely almost instantly as Blaze closed his mouth over the tip, causing her magic to shoot a few centimeters up with a magical poof!
"Mmm.." I see that you're enjoying this as much as I am..." Blaze said suggestively as he removed his mouth from her horn and began massaging her shoulders with his strong hooves.
Luna didn't have near as much tension as before she had brought Blaze back, but she was loving the attention he was now giving her shoulders nonetheless.
"Y-yes... please don't stop." she managed after a whimper, from the amazing feeling.
"I wouldn't even think of doing such a thing!" He responded as he continued working out every last uncomfortable feeling in her upper back.
He gave her a quick kiss as he now rubbed the undersides of her wings, another very sensitive place for her.
She responded with a relaxed moan as he applied light pressure to them, careful not to hurt her, as her wings were easy to accidentally bend. As she began to feel a warm sensation in her nether region, Blaze obviously noticed, as he smiled devilishly, moving his hoof slowly down her chest, stopping just above her awaiting marehood.
As this was happening, Luna had her head laid back, eyes closed in pleasure as she was feeling his hoof descend. She looked at him pleadingly when he stopped, desiring the wondrous feeling of his appendage inside of her.
"Are you ready, my love?" Blaze asked, by now both his semi-golden wings and hardened member showing his arousal quite prominently.
"Y-yes... please pleasure me..." Luna begged, the burning heat in her loins almost unbearable.
In response to this, Blaze wasted no time in complying, and lowered his head so that it was level with her moist folds. He eagerly placed his hoof on it, feeling her liquids dampen the end of the leg, and began rubbing it, causing a slippery noise to be made as he massaged her privates, currently around the edges.
Luna groaned softly as he did this, the feeling in her erogenous zone bringing her increasing ecstasy. As she felt his hoof increase in speed, she began panting softly; this felt unbelievable, and he had only just begun.
Before he continued, the dark pegasus suddenly kissed her on the mouth passionately, removing his hoof from her marehood for a few moments. The alicorn sighed into his mouth as she stayed with her lips locked with his.
After the kiss ended, he returned to her folds, taking in her scent with a grin; she was obviously enjoying this a lot, and he was made happy by the thought that he was pleasing his mare. Then an idea struck him; it would create the definite epitome of orgasms for his beloved Princess.
Luna's eyes closed in a sudden feeling of pleasure as Blaze used the side of his hoof to expose her aroused clitoris, and closed his lips over it, sucking it gently.
"Oh, I... ah.." Luna couldn't speak, feeling too good as her lover rolled her sensitive nub in his teeth very softly, prodding it with his tongue as he did so.
Luna began to feel a heightening sensation in her loins, and continued to moan and gasp as Blaze pleasured her. She was going to tell him of her impeding orgasm, but she couldn't even bring herself to speaking correctly in this state.
When Blaze stuck his dexterous tongue completely inside her and explored her sensitive walls, she nearly went over the edge, one more lick would do it, and Blaze could tell by her very shallow breathing and tensing up marehood.
Before she released her sexual tension, he stood up, quickly and skillfully lined himself up, and thrust his primed member into her dripping folds, causing her to immediately shout out and fall into a state of complete bliss, her orgasm by far the best she'd ever experienced.
As she slowly came down from her sexually euphoric moment, she was panting softly, still feeling amazing in the afterglow of the fantastic release Blaze had caused her to feel. She stared at him as she caught her breath.
"I... I loved my reward, thank you so much Blaze, it really meant so much." Luna exclaimed, nuzzling his face with hers.
As Blaze pulled out of her, he grinned and responded,
"I'm glad you enjoyed it... now, what do you say we have a good breakfast with your sister, and then enjoy ourselves a little until we see Twilight and her friends?"
Luna nodded, and slowly stood up, wings returning in their folded state at her sides, as she walked alongside with her lover to meet the princess of the sun for a calm morning meal.
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The sleek dark pegasus and his mare were on their way to Twilight's house. The two had had a peaceful and enjoyable talk with Celestia at breakfast, and Luna had then attempted to explain to Blaze some of the new innovations and changes that had come to be while he was deceased, so that he wouldn't be completely clueless. She was originally worried that he may have trouble catching on, but when she showed him a few of those things, he seemed to catch on quickly and with great interest.
As they landed in front of the library, Luna decided to try to calm Blaze, who was probably quite nervous.
"Trust me my dear, this won't be as unnerving as it may seem to be right now." Luna assured him.
"It's alright trust me, I'm used to talking to mares." He said with a grin, seeing Luna's confused expression.
"Oh, no no, you were my first and only love, but... due to my looks and the fact that I was captain of the Firebolts, I had many mares lining up just to see me." He said, smiling at the thought of how crazy his fans could get, especially the feminine ones.
At this, Luna rolled her eyes, and responded,
"I'm assuming none of them were close to as good looking as me?" she asked jokingly.
"I wouldn't say that..." Blaze replied, but immediately regretted that joke as he saw her hurt expression.
"It's okay... I know I'm not the prettiest mare in the world..." Luna said, feigning a pained look, and closing her eyes, making it look as if she were to begin sobbing.
"Oh no.. Luna, I didn't mean it!" Blaze said worryingly, but started to get suspicious as he thought he saw a smile playing at the corners of her mouth.
"GOT YOU!" Luna shouted, running into Blaze's hooves and kissing him repeatedly, on the face and neck mostly.
"Of course you did!" Blaze responded excitedly, kissing her back, as well as embracing the mare strongly, chuckling softly as she held him and licked his chest.
"Awwwwww." came a voice from behind them, startling them both.
As the two lovers turned around, they saw a blushing Twilight, who spoke quickly,
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I saw you land from outside, and..." she paused, smiling and turning redder, "I didn't expect you two to do this here."
Luna looked at Blaze, and him back at her, and they both smiled back.
"It's alright Twilight, we're done... for now." Luna reassured her, flicking her tail across Blaze's face as she began walking towards the studious violent unicorn.
"Oh, in that case, are you ready to come in and meet my friends, Blaze?" Twilight asked the pegasus, who was still recovering from being bombarded by the lips of his love.
"Yes Twilight, I believe I am." He said, smoothing out his mused mane with his hoof quickly, and then following the two mares into the book repository.
"Everypony is just in the backroom. Applejack and Pinkie brought food, and though I covered the books with 3 layers of plastic, I still couldn't risk any food getting on them! I don't know what I'd do if that happened!" The unicorn spoke dramatically, her voice deepening when she emphasized on 'what'.
Blaze looked a bit confused at her sporadic behavior, but Luna just rolled her eyes.
"It's Twilight." She said simply.
"Will you go in first my dear? I'm not sure how they'll react to me..." Blaze said nervously.
"No, we'll go in together, hoof in hoof." Luna responded, holding out hers for him to take in his.
He nodded, took hers, and opened the door; walking inside.
As soon as the mares inside noticed the entry of their princess and her lover, all noise ceased. The athletic pegasus laid back, eyes closed, saying triumphantly, "And that's how I won, it was a piece of cake!" She finished, clearing her throat at the abscence of applauding hooves. "Um guys, aren't you gonna-" she stopped as she opened her eyes, noticing the two now-present ponies, looking away and blushing as she muttered "Sorry" quietly.
Not wanting the newly awkward silence to last a second longer, Luna raised her voice.
"Hello, I have arrived with the most kinda stallion to ever live, and you may know him," she paused, looking over especially to rainbow dash, and the two Wonderbolts that could make it, Spitfire and Soarin.
"This is Velocious Blaze, captain of the Canterlot Firebolts, from one millennium ago."
Everypony gasped, and was now gazing in awe at him, and so now more awkward silence would occur, the pink party pony decided to be the first to greet him. She shot up and out of her seat and was buzzing at him from excitement in front of Blaze. "Hi there, I'm Pinkie Pie! I don't know how you're alive, because you sound really old! Do you like partying all the time? Because I REALLY do! It was nice meeting you, enjoy your time here!" She said excitedly as she almost flew back to her seat, smiling widely.
Blaze was shocked, that pony seemed a bit crazy to him, but he accepted it. Who was he to judge anypony because of a first impression? He noticed Twilight, who was standing patiently next to him and Luna, mouth the words, "Please forgive me" as she facehoofed.
Blaze felt Luna remove her hoof from his, and instead drape a wing over his back.
"Are you alright dear?" She asked Blaze, concerned.
"Y-yes, I'll be fine." he managed to respond.
"W- wait a second there Princess, but did you just call him... dear?" The orange farm pony asked, confused.
"Why yes Applejack, I was aware that two lovers may refer to each other as such, am I wrong?" Luna asked, not sure why Applejack was surprised to hear this, but then it hit her; she didn't tell any of them that she was in love with Blaze, since she assumed Twilight would do it for her.
"Oh... oh my! I'm so sorry I left that detail out!" Twilight spoke quickly in sudden realization.
Luna took a deep breath, and spoke.
"You are all quite obviously wondering how Blaze is here with us now. I think it would be best for me to explain." She paused to admire the captivated expressions of the ponies in front of her.
"I was very depressed, and felt as if I lacked the love that was shown to me before I became Nightmare Moon, when I had Blaze." Luna stopped as she saw the hurt expressions of her friends, and Twilight looking down.
"L-Luna, I'm s-so sorry I didn't pay as much attention to you as Celestia. I know it's my fault you were lonely, and-" Twilight was stopped as Luna placed a hoof on her shoulder.
"No, Twilight, none of this was your fault, and I love having you and your friends. My problem was of my own faults, please don't blame yourself." she spoke softly, giving the saddened unicorn a small squeeze. "You can sit down now." Luna whispered as she resumed her place next to Blaze.
As Twilight took a seat next to the boastful blue pegasus and the two Wonderbolts, Luna resumed her explanation.
"So, to put it in terms of which are easier to understand, I resurrected him with an ancient and forbidden form of magic." She stopped temporarily on purpose, grinning at the awestruck mares and stallion before her. "Don't worry, he's alive as he was one thousand years ago, just in a different way." She finished, satisfied that what she told them wouldn't raise any concern or discomfort.
She was expecting a bit of awkward silence to follow, perhaps somepony to ask how such a thing was possible, but none of that happened.
Suddenly, the hardy work pony got out of her seat, smiling.
"Howdy there Mr. Blaze! Pleasure to meet ya! Name's Applejack." she said in an enthusiastic greeting, holding out her hoof.
Blaze shook it, and replied, "Hello! Y-" he stopped, admiring her strength, "have quite the grip!" he told her, smiling.
"Well, ya shouldn't be too surprised, I am quite the hard worker, running Sweet Apple Acres, you should visit sometime!" she told him.
"Heh, I'll be sure to do just that." he replied, releasing her hoof, and rubbing the hoof she had held; it felt pretty numb.
Applejack looked at him doing this, and chuckled softly as the pure white unicorn with stylish purple mane trotted towards Blaze.
"Hello there darling. Rarity, fashion designer at Carousel Boutique, you seem like a very generous pony, Mr. Blaze." she said, looking directly at him, still in slight awe.
Blaze could not stop staring back at her; he was blushing slightly due to her extreme prettiness.
"Is something the matter?" asked Rarity, looking at him in slight concern.
"Oh, no, it's just that it's rare I've seen such a mare with as much beauty as you, besides Luna." he spoke, seeing as Luna rolled her eyes and grinned.
The attractive white unicorn's eyes sparkled at his compliment, and she turned a bit crimson herself.
"Why... why thank you Mr. Blaze! I must say, you are very handsome as well! Princess, you are very lucky to have met a stallion who possesses such attractiveness and etiquette!" she told the dark princess, causing her smile to grow even wider.
Rarity then returned to her seat, made happy because of how kind Blaze was to her, and her brilliant mind was already at work thinking of ideas for outfits and apparel she'd make for him and him alone in the future.
Next to stand up; albeit shakily, was none other than the timid butter-yellow pegasus with long pink mane, Fluttershy. She walked over slowly, trembling slightly. He was being kind to her friends, but what if he found her shyness to be a fault, and end up disliking her?
The thought scared her, and it was evident when she made a nervous little squeak as she reached Blaze.
This concerned him for a few moments; would she be too afraid of him to even introduce herself? He looked at her worryingly, saying, "It's okay, I won't cause you any harm."
Lune tried to go over and help, but this only caused poor Fluttershy to shake even more, and whimper softly in fear.
"Fluttershy dear? He is quite the gentlecolt, please don't be afraid." Rarity said to her quivering friend.
She finally gained enough courage to speak, though very softly.
"H-hello Velocious Blaze. I-I'm Fluttershy, and I..." she stuttered, overcome yet again by the fear that he'd dislike her.
"It's wonderful to meet you Ms. Fluttershy, you need not be afraid," he spoke with a soft smile as he knelt down to her eye level, since she was huddled on the ground and still partially hiding in her mane, previously shaking.
Reluctantly, the timid pegasus looked up into his golden eyes, being as courageous as she could.
She saw none of the anger, danger, or sadness she'd expect a millennium-old pegasus to have. Instead, she saw love, trust, and happiness.
This just about instantaneously calmed her, and she stood up to full height, causing Blaze to happily do the same.
"And I am the caretaker of many wonderful animals!" she finished with a small grin, proud of herself for overcoming her anxiety.
Everypony was a bit surprised; Fluttershy was never this calm around anypony who was new to her. She even seemed to be acting towards Blaze with such an amount of comfort, it was as if she had known him as long as her other friends.
"Nice to meet you! You sound like you live up to your element!" Blaze exclaimed, relieved that she was no longer scared.
If Luna remembered one thing to tell him about Twilight's friends before they arrived, it was the Elements of Harmony, and which mare represented which element. He was happy when he realized that he excelled in just about all of those qualities. (Asides from laughter and magic, Luna reminded him).
"Oh, well... that's very kind of you!" Fluttershy exclaimed softly, looking away with a small blush and smile.
Luna wasn't too surprised to see the flushed look on these mares' faces, even one thousand years ago, everypony, mares and stallions alike, thought Blaze was extremely handsome, and this type of reaction wasn't new to her. She thought to herself how, although there may be some stallions with his attractiveness, none of those were close to being as wonderful and thoughtful as him.
"I- I'll let Rainbow Dash have her turn now, she's been waiting," Fluttershy paused as she glanced over at the cyan pegasus, who looked unhappy with having to wait and was tapping her hoof on the table quickly.
"Would you hurry up? I really wanna meet him!" Rainbow interrupted.
"Rather patiently." finished Fluttershy, rolling her turquoise eyes and hovering back to her seat, turning a tiny bit red and hiding in her mane once more to hide it when she looked back at Blaze.
As she saw Rainbow prepare to launch herself at Blaze, Applejack looked a bit concerned.
"Uh, Ah think we were right to have her go last, Ah can't imagine she'll be adorable and cautious like Fluttershy just was." she spoke quickly to Rarity.
"Don't worry dear, he's a Firebolt, and a performer of his caliber is most definitely used to a crazy fanmare like her!" Rarity responded, trying to be optimistic.
Only a few seconds later, Rainbow landed infront of Blaze, the fast air created by her dash blowing her mane slightly over her eyes. Doing this caused Blaze to flinch slightly, and then put on his best smile.
"Why hello there! I-" he was cut off as Rainbow interrupted,
"Hiya! Name's Rainbow Dash, you can call me Dash if you want! I always dreamed of being able to meet you! You're like... the BEST flyer of all time!" she shouted, fluttering her wings in joy. "You're like, SUPER AMAZINGLY AWESOME!" she said with an excited squee. "You are like, an even more skilled Wonderbolt!" she said right after. "No offense." she added, looking back at Spitfire and Soarin.
"It's fine, Rainbow Dash..." Soarin replied, chuckling softly; half at the pegasus' behavior, the other in nervous awe of who was standing before him.
At this moment, Blaze could have sworn his mane was blown backwards from her very loud and excited voice, and he spoke quickly before she could cut him off again, "Somepony is a big fan!" with a look of pride.
"A fan! Of course I am! Flying is one of my biggest passions, next to my friends!" she added. "I- is it true, about your wings?" she asked, not sure if this could be, or it was just a legend.
"See for yourself." Blaze spoke with a smile, as he speedily opened his wings.
At the sight, everpony gasped in shock, except for Fluttershy who jumped a considerable height and nearly toppled over in her chair. The light reflected off of his golden underfeathers shimmered brightly.
This caused Rainbow to squee, and do her famous "Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh!" as she put a hoof up to her mouth.
After a few more moments, Blaze folded his wings, and the brightness of the room seemed to lessen a bit.
"As you just saw, my wings are certaintly more than an old pony's tale!" he spoke with a large smile.
"I know that now, and it's soooooooo cool!" We gotta fly sometime, you can teach me some of your old Firebolt maneuvers!" Rainbow practically shouted in joy.
This was unseen by anypony before; Rainbow Dash asking to be the one taught?
"I love pushing myself, I really wanna become a Wonderbolt!" she half-whined, looking at the female Wonderbolt, who seemed to be shaking ever so slightly; but there was too much excitement present for Rainbow to notice.
"As soon as we have a spot, I-I'll do what I can." she replied, letting out a small whimper, covering her mouth as soon as she realized it.
Blaze was about to ask, but was stopped when he saw Rainbow staring at him, waiting for a response.
"Of course! You are already proving to be one of the most interesting and determined ponies I've ever met!" he replied, of course entirely truthful, but his attention was brought back to the shaking golden-coated mare.
"Wow, this was SO fun meeting you, we gotta hang out sometime!" she told him, flying back over to her seat, vibrating in evident excitement.
Soarin was trying his best to comfort her, but to no avail.
"Um, miss..." Blaze started, not sure how he could help, whatever the problem may have been.
"Spitfire, just... it's Spitfire." the captain mare spoke unsteadily, walking towards him slowly.
Tears were forming in her eyes as she began to speak.
"Four years ago, I f-formed a team of extremely skilled fliers, using the title 'The Wonderbolts', which I-" she stopped temporarily, now standing directly in front of Blaze, tears now streaming down her flawless yellow fur. "Which I got from the Firebolts, started by my ancestor." she finished, looking directly into Blaze's confused eyes, seeing the realization slowly starting to dawn on him.
He couldn't believe this, but he knew in his heart she was telling the truth. He actually had a descendant? A living, breathing, famous... granddaughter? Tears of his own were struggling to break through,
"S-so you're my..." he stopped as he heard a simple,
"Yes."
At that exact moment, Luna felt a slight pain in her head, and closed her eyes. Right as she did this; she couldn't explain what happened next.
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She seemed to be in her own body still; she could feel her immobilized self, but the princess was seeing through the eyes of a young pony, the actions of who she couldn't control.
"Oh, my Celestia, I have to make it to the hospital to see this before I'm too late!" an early teenage male spoke as he flew quickly in said direction.
Luna took notice of the very old and no longer used architecture of the buildings of which this pegasus, whoever he may have been, was flying past.
This must be at least a millennium ago Luna thought to herself as she watched this scene before her.
A strong blast of wind from the right caused the still maturing pony to stumble in the air, and clip his left wing, sending a few night-black feathers to detach themselves from his feathery appendage and blow in front of him. Luna could not feel the sudden sharp pain; this was as if she was watching a movie from the main character's point of view.
This determined pegasus was young, flying fast with almost no flaws, and was black as her cutie mark. Could it be? The mane was too short for her to see without looking up; if this was indeed her lover, he must have just gotten it cut.
He had seemed to shrug off the pain of his now less efficient left wing, and whispered, "damn" with a wince.
The pony arrived at an old fashioned hospital, and galloped through the doors, panting from his recent physical exertion.
"Where is my mother?!" he shouted to nopony in particular, causing a few ponies in the lobby to look at him with curiosity, others seeming to know him.
He seemed to- no, he was growing more anxious by the second. At that moment, a light red nurse with long, light blue mane, approached him calmly.
Luna's suspicion was confirmed when the mare said,
"Mr. Blaze?"
He nodded quickly and asked hurryingly,
"Is she alright?"
The medical mare smiled and replied,
"Follow me."
Adolescent Blaze was still a bit nervous, even though the nurse didn't look concerned, he had to see for himself his mother's condition.
He was led to one of the rooms, and achieved exactly what he wanted to; he saw it for himself.
There was his father, the normally work-hardened pegasus crying tears of joy as he looked at his wife.
Blaze's eyes widened at the sight before him; he had never witnessed... this, before.
His mother, a light grey pegasus with even darker grey mane. She had large, beautiful, knowing ruby eyes. She was also holding something, and that something happened to be a newborn foal.
Dumbfounded, he began slowly walking over towards them.
"Velocious..." she spoke, smiling softly.
"Hello, beloved mother, I'm... sorry, I was-" he stopped as she weakly held a hoof up to his mouth.
"It's okay, all that matters is that you're here now, dear son." as she kissed him lovingly on the forehead. "As you can see, you now have a new baby sister." she told him quietly, giving him a better look.
Cradled in the tired mare's hooves was a smaller than normal (though still healthy), filly pegasus. She was a dark blue, though not quite as dark as Luna. However, her mane was a sleek black, similar to Blaze's fur.
"I- I'd like to hold her, if that's alright." Blaze asked politely.
"Of course dear." his mother replied, gently passing over the small foal to her son.
Blaze very carefully and curiously took the baby in his hooves. He was experiencing something he never had before; he was now the older brother to a living, breathing being.
Luna was made very happy by this, and realized the tear-obscured view of the newborn pony she now was seeing. Blaze, like his father, had begun crying in happiness. A single one of his warm tears rolled off his cheek and onto the foal's forehead.
This caused the tiny being to stir, and she slowly opened her eyes, gazing upon her elder sibling for the first time.
"Your father and I have agreed that you should be the one to name her." he heard his mother speak.
Blaze nodded, and then saw her eyes. They were a rare color, a light grey, and looked like a misty color, which seemed to naturally reflect the light of the room onto Blaze's face.
"She's... beautiful." he spoke, new tears making themselves present in his eyes.
Her coat and mane reminded him of the beautiful night sky created by his princess of the night, whom he always had an interest in and wanted to meet someday. Her eyes... their fullness and color reminded him of the moon.
"Shimmering Night." he told his mother, sure of himself.
She smiled, and nodded, looking over at her husband for his approval. He spoke with pride,
"Yes, I think that describes her perfectly. Today, I became the father of the beautiful Shimmering Night."
Shimmering Night raised her stubby forelegs in the air towards her brother. Blaze grinned and brought his head closer to hers. His smile grew even wider as he felt the sensation of her sucking on his left ear, causing him to feel happier than he had in a very long time, if there even was one in his life close to being as beautiful as this one.
Seeing the whole scene made Luna feel like crying, Celestia would occasionally remind her of the day Luna was born, and she didn't truly know what the pure white goddess could have felt until now.
Suddenly, the scene began to fade away, being replaced by temporary darkness, and then Luna's vision of the physical world she had always known had returned.
However, something happened that made no sense to her whatsoever. What she just saw; by now it made itself obvious to be a memory of Blaze's, must have been about ten minutes. In the room of the library she was in, it had looked like only a second or two, if even, had passed, since Spitfire had just finished nodding in response to Blaze, and was now staring at him.
"I... I thought I'd never have any family again!" Blaze exclaimed, now crying freely.
He embraced the golden mare tightly, feeling her shaking body in his hooves, comforting both himself and her. The emotion they were showing one another was so genuine, so pure, it was truly a beautiful sight.
"B-Blaze, I... always wanted a family member I could relate to. One that-" she stopped, sniffling and allowing Blaze to wipe the constantly flowing tears away as best he could.
"Yes? What did you want, dear granddaughter?" Blaze asked, quickly through a choked voice.
"One that understands and enjoys what I do!" she shouted, holding onto him even tighter. "Thank you, so much!" she told him, feeling an overwhelming amount of happiness make itself present.
"it's... the least I could do." he spoke with a genuine smile, rubbing her back slowly.
By this time, everypony was crying at this spectacle. Even Soarin, who was normally able to hold back such emotions, could not, seeing his best friend so happy. Pinkie Pie was bawling in Applejack's hooves; the farm pony wiped a tear away from her eye and spoke,
"Now Pinkie Pie, it's alright, this truly is beautiful."
Fluttershy was hiding her reddened eyes in her long mane, and crying softly, making small whimpering noises; the site of this was quite sad, and Rarity was holding the yellow mare tightly.
"Now, now Fluttershy, let it out." the pristine white unicorn told her shuddering friend.
And there was Twilight and Rainbow, the two mares holding each other lovingly and assuringly.
"H-ha, Rainbow, I didn't think I'd ever see you, out of anypony, to cry." Twilight spoke as she acknowledged the redness of the light blue pegasus' eyes as she tried her hardest to keep back her emotions.
"Oh, I- I could never do t-that." Rainbow choked out, the pressure becoming too great; her vermillion eyes felt like they had more of a liquid force behind them than the dam she failed to stop from breaking in the incident with Mare Do Well. "Oh, never mind, I don't see why I was hiding it! Oh my Celestia this is sad!" she exclaimed, breaking out into tears as she held on tightly to Twilight, who was caught off guard; Twilight herself was the one who she'd expected to be sobbing more, but she was quite mistaken.
By now, Luna's head had began throbbing painfully, and she put a hoof to it. She made her way over to Blaze and Spirfire, and when she looked at the two, they seemed to have been brought back from the personal moment they had just experienced, and separated.
"You don't know how much happier I'm going to be now because of you." Spitfire spoke in a soft, happy tone.
"I could say the same for you, you beautiful, amazing mare." he replied, smiling.
Luna had tried to, but was unsuccessful in ignoring the pain she was feeling in her temple, most likely from what she had just witnessed.
Luna led the two ponies to the table, and took a seat; there were now three empty chairs, all next to each other. The other mares and stallion had moved, allowing them room.
Blaze then noticed a sad looking Pinkie Pie walk up to him from the side.
"Velocious Blaze?" she asked, her ears down and her gaze downcast. Her mane was also of a darker hue, and perfectly straight.
"Yes, Pinkie?" he replied, wondering what the party pony had to say to him.
"I- I just wanted to say, I'm sorry for earlier, and how... rude my first words were. I can just be really crazy all the time, I shouldn't have treated you, of all ponies, that way." she told him.
As he opened his mouth to speak, he noticed her look further away and whimper in fear of what she thought was to come, and he felt Luna wrap her hooves around him. He took a deep breath.
"Pinkie, it's fine. While I wasn't expecting that, feel free to act yourself whenever I'm around." he told the shaky mare before him.
"Wait, you're not mad? You're not going to hate me?" she asked, the surprise easily discernible in her voice.
"No, I'm not. Why would I hate a mare just because she wants to be her normal, eccentric, interesting self?" he asked with an obvious tone, and a sweet simle.
"Oh, that's a good point..." she said, her shaking getting more violent, but it was no longer from sadness...
Blaze didn't even flinch as she flew into his hooves, her mane inflating yet again in his face, and she nuzzled his neck, sighing softly. He felt her breathe softly into it, and he rubbed her back slowly.
"Thank you so much!" she said as she jumped out of his hooves and to the other side of the room, to a cart covered by a white cloth. "I brought CUPCAKES!" she yelled for everypony to hear, pushing over the cart and tearing off the fabric over it, allowing everypony to smell the scrumptious-looking treats, the multi-colored sparkling sugar sprinkled over the frosting, which was perfectly placed on each one.
Blaze smiled; the mare may have been crazy, but her attitude sure did make him, and it seemed every other pony around him, happy.
"Oh, uh, I kinda forgot to tell ya, I brought some food, fresh from the apples at Sweet Apple Acres!" Applejack exclaimed, thanking Rarity and Twilight as they took the plates off of the cart and placed them on the table with their magic.
Luna looked at the delicious food before her eyes, and inched closer to Blaze, lightly kissing him on the cheek.
"Enjoying yourself, dear?" she asked, the thought of what had just happened to her still there.
"Yes, I am, quite a bit. I loved meeting you all; you are such great ponies! This will be great enjoying this... very healthy lunch with you all!" he told everypony, beaming.
"Yes, let's do just that, Blaze!" Spitfire said as she reached for a slice of apple pie. "Say, Blaze, would you like to work off these calories after this with me, Soarin, and Rainbow?" she asked him, taking a bite of the wonderful dessert.
Blaze felt very happy as he heard Rainbow exclaim, "A chance to work out with the Wonderbolts... and Blaze? YES!"
"Yes, I really would like that." Blaze replied, reaching for a cupcake with light blue icing. "Why wouldn't I want to spend time with my new best friend, and granddaughter?" he then asked.
"I'm honestly not sure." Spitfire returned with a smile.
In the meantime, Luna had just about recovered from her vision, and was enjoying some apple fritter. She loved it; Canterlot didn't have many desserts that weren't extremely complicated and exquisite; the homely taste of this was great to her.
She finished it, and took a look around. The mares were talking to each other, seeming absorbed in their conversations. Luna gently poked him in the side.
"Yes?" he asked, turning around, finishing his cupcake and licking his lips.
Luna didn't respond, instead she looked into his golden eyes. She had previously seen some sadness and loneliness, but that had been replaced with calmness and relief; due to how he still had a family member, and had made many friends today.
She leaned forwards, so that she could feel his breath on her face, and how it increased in speed; he must have been excited.
"I love you, and I'm so glad you now have friends and family again. You being sad was horrible, and I'm glad it's over." she told him.
"I am too, thank you for everything; for allowing me to meet these great ponies, and my descendant. It means so much, more than you could ever imagine." he responded, moving his face even closer to hers, so that they were only centimeters apart.
She felt the powerful feeling of love for him surge through her again, and she pushed forward, pressing her lips against his, and wrapping her hooves around his head. She kept doing so; her emotions could have been literally spilling out.
Blaze didn't recoil at all. Instead, he pushed back with equal force, and moaned softly. He had noticed that all the chatter around them had stopped, but he didn't care about that now. He felt her tongue enter his mouth, and he accommodated her desire, entwining hers with his.
Luna tasted the sweetness of the cupcake's frosting on his tongue, and enjoyed it for a few moments more. She pulled away slowly, untangling her tongue with his.
A string of saliva that connected their mouths dripped down onto the table, and he looked around at the quiet mares around him. Applejack had removed her hat and was smiling at him, and spoke,
"Awwwww, how sweet." she whispered.
"Wow! That sure was super fun to watch!" Pinkie shouted.
"Oh my..." Fluttershy said quietly with a blush.
"Well that was certainly more interesting than what's in the books..." added Twilight with a sheepish grin.
"What a beautiful, genuine display of affection!" Rarity beamed.
Rainbow had her wings extended, and she whispered, "T-that was... hot." as she blushed; all of the ponies could tell she was aroused by the deep kiss Luna had just shared with Blaze.
As for the Wonderbolts, Soarin had a silly grin on his face, and Spitfire was snuggling against Blaze, happy he had such a great mare as his lover.
"Um, sorry?" Luna asked, wondering if what she and Blaze had done was inappropriate.
"It's fine, Luna." Tiwlight assured her. "We just thought it was so sweet!"
"So you don't mind if me and her do things like this in front of you all?" Blaze asked.
"Nope." said all but one pony simultaneously.
A few seconds later, Fluttershy added "No, w-we don't mind at all."
Luna noticed how Fluttershy's wings were extended as well.
"I'm so sorry for my wings, you're just, so hot!" Rainbow exclaimed, followed by a short nod from Fluttershy.
"I- I apologize as well... I've tried to get it to stop, but I just can't!" Fluttershy squeaked.
Luna smiled as she thought back to the time she first saw Blaze, and her wings had done the same, causing quite a bit of embarrassment for the youthful princess.
"Oh, I... didn't know that I still had that effect on mares." Blaze told them, starting to turn a bit red.
"Awwwww.... he's so cute when he's blushing!" Fluttershy exclaimed.
Everypony looked at her and began chuckling softly as she had realized what she said, burying her face in her hooves.
Luna was happy the other mares were enjoying Blaze's company so much. However, she knew that she and him couldn't stay here forever.
After a few more hours of enjoying herself, Luna had said goodbye, and Blaze had embraced everypony one last time; Spitfire for the longest, and had departed. The two had a peaceful flight back to the castle, but Luna had told Blaze that her sister would be expecting her to return to her royal duties.
Blaze was saddened at hearing this, but quickly had his hope restored when Luna said that he'd see her every night, along with each meal every day, unless there was a dire emergency and Luna couldn't come.
She had told him that it'd be best for him to spend time with his new friends, especially Rainbow Dash, and his relative, Spitfire, while she worked it out with her sister so that she'd be doing more royal work that allowed her to be closer to Blaze.
As Luna touched down on the edge of her tower, she told Blaze to make himself comfortable; she was going to talk to Celestia about something real quick.
As Blaze nodded and sat on her bed, he nuzzled against the dark blue blankets and sighed adorably, causing Luna to squee and feel very happy, but she was still a bit nervous about what she was about to show Celestia.
She then used her magic to teleport the very book she used to resurrect her lover and herself to her sister's balcony, and noticed that the large glass doors were locked.
Celestia was replying to her daily letters, when she heard a knock on her balcony door. She looked up and saw her sister, who looked quite nervous.
Celestia stood up, stretching, and trotted over to the huge doors, opening them and welcoming her sister.
Luna simply walked over to Celestia's bed, dropped the book down, and sighed.
"Sister, we have quite the subject to discuss."
Author's Note
Sorry for the excruciatingly long wait, I got kinda lazy and then my life turned into a pile of shit, so yeah. I hope you enjoy.
The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 1: Luna's Despair
The Forever Burning Embers of Love
After she ate an exotic supper with her sister, Luna went to perform her nightly duty of raising the moon. However, before she even began the spectacular feat, something started to cloud her mind. She tried to ignore it, but she could only do so for a few seconds.
Tears had started welling up at the corners of her azure eyes as she focused all of her magic on bringing the moon to the center of the sky, which was darkening gradually as she did so. By now the thought had caused her to feel so horrible that she could barely see through her teary eyes at all, the slowly rising moon itself looking like a mere reflection on the glassy surface of a lake. Luna could barely take it anymore, once the moon was in it's place, she collapsed onto her royal bed, crying terribly at the thing that had just made her sad moments before; the thought that no one truly loved her.
She could only see the blackness of her closed eyelids, and could only feel the degrading emptiness inside her, along with the soreness in her throat from all of her anguish. She shuddered almost constantly against the tear-stained silk cover of her bed, feeling hated, feared, forlorn, and most of all, lonely. Every second felt like an hour.
A few moments later, there was a knock at her bedroom door.
"Luna, I could hear you crying from the hall! What's wrong?"
Luna instantly recognized the distressed voice as her sister, but she didn't care, she didn't want to see anyone, even if it may be her sister, ever again. She just wanted to lay here forever, feeling the small amount of comfort her now sodden bed sheets provided. She ignored her and continued sobbing relentlessly.
"That's enough! I'm coming in!" said Celestia worryingly from behind the door.
After using her magic to open the locked door, Celestia flew over to Luna, who looked smaller than ever, curled up on the large bed. She couldn't stand seeing her beloved sister this way, and had started to tear up herself.
"Please Luna, tell me what is causing you to be this way! I love you more than anything, and I can't bare seeing you like this!" quivered Celestia, who was normally firm in the way she spoke.
After about thirty seconds, Luna finally looked up, breathing heavily, her normally beautifully combed blue mane a matted mess upon her face. The normally light blue bed sheets her teary face had been resting upon were soaked, causing them to be a very dark color.
After gaining a slight bit of composure, Luna said in a choking voice, "Don't pretend you don't know! Absolutely nopony loves me! I will always be feared by some for what I did in the past! They will never accept me. I can hardly live this way!"
What little composure Luna had just gained had just disappeared as she began bawling again, this time louder than before.
This was getting to be too much for her. Celestia took an unsteady, but deep breath.
"Luna, don't be silly. I cherish you more than anything in Equestria! It doesn't matter if everypony else may not feel exactly the same, I will always be here for you! And that's not true, what about Twilight and her friends?" she said fondly, trying her best to sound convincing. Instead, this just made Luna feel worse.
"Yes, you! But you aren't everypony else! How could I possibly be happy, being liked by only seven ponies, out of the thousands in our land? And what happens when they die, then I'll only have you! Tell me exactly how!" Luna screamed.
What Luna had just said hurt Celestia deeply, but she still tried to cheer her up.
"Please Luna, stop this! I can-" she was suddenly interrupted.
"You can what? Force everyone else to love me? I don't think so! Please, just go!" Luna yelled with her terribly sore throat hurting her even more.
Celestia was about to say more, something to try to stop Luna from behaving like this, but she decided it would be a fruitless attempt. She got up, and after looking at the crying mess that had just been her sister, left the room, not believing how she was just leaving Luna there, but she knew she could try to comfort her later. The door closed softly as Celestia, not believing what Luna had just said, trotted to her room, tears sliding down her snowy white fur.
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The Forever Burning Embers of Love
Chapter 9: An Evening of Lovemaking and Extravagance (Mature)
As the early evening breeze blew against her, Luna thought of her visit with Twilight, and how well it had gone. She wasn't a expecting a mare even as understanding as her to accept that there was a thousand year old pegasus with Luna; it was something most ponies would be afraid of. She was especially mystified at how Twilight had just adjusted to the situation like there was nothing abnormal about it; but Luna just shrugged it off, this was why Twilight was her best friend, she wasn't judgmental of anypony or anything. And who should care if every other pony didn't accept it? Luna had Blaze, making her content, and that was all that mattered.
In the excitement of their earlier moment in the garden and talking with Twilight, Luna's lingering hunger had been ignored. She had almost forgot how hungry one pony could be after not eating for a day, since she was usually full; her sister made sure of it. She heard a loud grumble being emitted from her stomach, along with an empty feeling. She couldn't wait
"Hungry?" Blaze asked simply.
"Yes, quite a bit, though I can't complain. How does it feel, not having eaten for ten centuries?" Luna asked with a thoughtful tone in her voice.
"That's kind of you for asking, but, to put it simply, I feel as if I could eat an entire field. I've been extremely hungry ever since this morning, but I haven't said anything about it, because I didn't want to cause you to have to go out of your way to tend to my needs." He explained with absolute selflessness.
"Oh Blaze, you don't have to starve yourself for me, am I really that worth it?" Luna asked, in a slightly self degrading manner.
As the two touched down on the balcony to Celestia's tower, Blaze responded, "No, you're not, you're absolutely priceless."
Luna sighed and nuzzled her cheek against his, enjoying the warmth of his fur. She wished she could always feel his warmness, but then she heard a familiar voice near her.
"I'm glad you could make it on time sis!" Celestia spoke in a way of greeting.
Pulling away from Blaze slowly, she replied truthfully, "Hello Celestia, you look beautiful."
Celestia had brushed her pearly white coat, straightening the spotless fur. She was not wearing any of her jewelry, deciding to go with her natural look, as she knew her sister would. She did apply a minimal amount of makeup on her cheeks, barely noticeable, but doing an excellent job of bringing out the fullness of her features. Her very colorful flowing mane was parted slightly to the side, but not over her eye like it sometimes was.
"Wow, Luna's right, you're a very fine mare, Celestia." Blaze told her, not being able to stop his blush.
"I hope you don't mind my reaction to your sister's beauty, Luna, I'm sorry if it offended you." he said, a bit embarrassed.
"Of course not Blaze! She's my sister, I don't mind some friendly interactions between you two!" Luna exclaimed in a laid back tone, smiling.
Blaze's cheeks reddened even further when Celestia kissed him lightly on the cheek as an expression of gratitude for his kindness.
"You are very handsome yourself, Luna is extremely fortunate to have you." Celestia said with a soft smile.
"I believe it's the other way around..." Blaze trailed off as he gazed into the elegant navy blue alicorn's large eyes.
"Not to break the serenity of the moment, but I think we should head off to our supper, I had the master chef prepare his most famous and delectable dish." Celestia said to the two lovers.
"You're right, we've both been very hungry all day, let's go!" Luna declared excitedly.
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The three had entered the dimly lit, seldom used private dining room. It truly was constructed with luxury in mind. The velvet carpet was unbelievably soft, the ponies could barely feel their hooves touching the ground, as if they were flying. The large chairs were also very comfortable. The frame and legs were golden with a multitude of jewels on the outside, and the deep red cushions were the perfect combination of welcoming but firm. A gold and platinum chandelier with multiple pleasantly scented candles hung above the classic looking gold spruce wood table with gold edges. The room had a warm feeling to it that made Luna feel as if she was enveloped in the warmth of the thick blankets of her royal bed.
"Oh, I'm sorry sis, I almost forget to raise the moon tonight! I-" she stopped as she felt a hoof on her shoulder, and turned to see her elder sister, smiling fondly.
"Please Luna, this is your special night, celebrating the reunion of Blaze with you. Will you allow me?" She asked, just in case Luna really desired to raise it herself.
"But I... okay. Blaze, would you like to stand with me on the balcony while my sister does this?" Luna inquired, just to be polite, since she already knew the answer beforehand.
"Would I!" He said excitedly, taking a spot next to Luna, eagerly anticipating what was about to happen.
Celestia grinned, and focused all of her magic into first lowering the sun. Of course this was instinctive to her by now, having done so hundreds of thousands of times before. She made sure to make this an extraordinary one for the two ponies happily holding each other behind her. As the golden orb began its descent, it turned a darker orange color, and the sky became several beautiful shades of magenta, scarlet, and dark yellow. Hearing a gasp from Blaze, who wasn't used to seeing such things, she knew she had created a truly beautiful sight. As the very top of the sun disappeared beneath the horizon, Celestia paused temporarily as she heard Blaze speak from behind her.
"W- wow Celestia, that was beautiful, in fact it was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, save for Luna." He spoke, eyes still large.
Smiling widely as she saw her sister wrap her hooves around him, she knew she had to finish the deed, and she was going to make this her greatest display in as long as she could remember. She brought forth all of her concentration, and began to move the white, cratered sphere to the middle of the sky, also bringing many bright stars, making the constellations more prominent as well. Once the moon was in its place, Celestia trotted back to her seat, and slowly sunk into it, unsuccessfully suppressing a giggle at Luna's, and especially Blaze's reaction to her sunset and moon rise.
"Wow sister, that was magnificent, thank you for the awe inspiring entertainment!" Luna said excitedly, stomach rumbling loudly.
Noticing her sister's hunger, she exclaimed, "It was nothing new, but in all honesty, I think we all can't wait to eat, so lets do just that!"
Wisely, Celestia had the chef prepare the meals in advance, so they were just about done after she raised the moon. She decided she would chat with the two after they weren't starving.
The large doors suddenly flung open, and a confident looking white unicorn stallion with an expensive chef's hat came through, pushing a metal cart, which had three silver platters, along with two baskets of delicious looking bread, a warmed stick of butter, and plate of hummus. Luna also saw a very costly bottle of wine.
As the cart came to a halt, the chef levitated the bread, butter, and hummus onto the table. He then uncorked the bottle, and poured a perfectly equal amount of the fragrant liquid into each glass.
Luna knew that whatever meal Celestia had picked for the three of them was going to be wondrous, and her thought just then was confirmed when the cover of the platter was lifted.
In front of her was a very succulent and unique looking meal. There were many iridescent, evenly sliced vegetables, arranged in the shape of her cutie mark. They were visibly coated in a rich looking sauce, with many spices and herbs sprinkled on top. There was some parsley off to the side to add the finishing touch. Glancing over at Celestia and Blaze's food, she saw that theirs were the same, except the vegetables were arranged in their cutie marks. Quickly, her hunger getting the best of her, she took a rather large bite, along the top of the crescent shape. The amazingly sweet flavor of the perfect sauce filled her mouth, and the many, perfectly sprinkled spices complimented it. The vegetables themselves were a perfect combination of soft and firm, and seemed to taste much better the more she ate them. As she swallowed, she discovered that she loved it.
As she eagerly took another bite, Celestia said in a satisfied tone, "Enjoying your meal, Luna?"
Using her magic to remove the fork from her mouth, she replied, "Yes! Thanks for choosing this as our meal! And chef, this is wonderful, you did an excellent job!"
"Um, Luna? The chef bowed and left about thirty seconds ago." Blaze said, hiding an amused smile.
Luna felt a bit embarrassed at how she had been too engrossed by the delicious looking meal before her to pay any attention to the chef's formal leave, but knew there was nothing she could do about it now.
"Well, speaking of the chef, he sure did an excellent job of preparing this. Again, thank you Celestia, you really know what good food truly is!" Blaze exclaimed, taking a heavenly bite of his sweet, perfectly textured dish, not having too much trouble picking up the fork with his hoof.
After politely waiting for him to swallow, Celestia had a question to ask that she never fully knew the answer to.
"Blaze could you mind telling me how you started dating my sister? If I remember correctly, you first met her personally at the annual Equestrian Flight Teams Tournament, but I don't know what made you two started seeing eachother." She asked, grinning as Blaze turned a deep shade of red.
"Oh, um... I had always thought she was very beautiful, and..." he paused, noticing how he was stuttering uncontrollably. He took a deep breath, calming his nerves. Though Celestia was Luna's sister, he still felt very awkward when he remembered how scared he originally was to talk to her. "I asked if I could sit next to her, and I was granted permission. It was going to be my team's turn in about 10 minutes, so I didn't want to waste her time..." he stopped as he made a nervous squeak, looking away, until he felt a hoof on his cheek, and turned to look right into Luna's eyes.
"Blaze, if it's too uncomfortable talking about it, you don't have to continue, it sure did take a lot of courage to say what you did to me that day." She spoke soothingly, kissing him passionately, and hugging him tightly.
Celestia started to think this was her fault. Blaze was normally really brave and open to talk about everything, especially his love for her sister. Had she said something to cause him to feel insecure? Before she could ask, Blaze took a deep breath, and began to speak again, seeming to have gained some of his composure.
"I began to speak to her, which was a bit hard at first, but then I just started feeling more and more confident. I told her about my interests, after of course asking about hers first. I realized she had been blushing a bit, and I asked her why, and was very surprised what she said, Luna would you mind telling Celestia what?" He asked, starting to feel better as Luna confidently spoke to her elder sister.
"I was blushing because I thought he was very attractive, I had never seen a better looking stallion in my age of nearly one thousand years back then." She said with a smile, blushing furiously.
Grinning widely himself, Blaze spoke again, "When she told me that, all of my nervousness disappeared, and I started telling her my true feelings. How I thought she was the most beautiful mare I'd ever seen, and how much I loved her personality." he stopped temporarily, moving to spread butter on Luna's bread for her, smiling. After he was done with the thoughtful action, he resumed speaking. "Seeing that we were clearly interested in each other very much, I had an inspiration for when I performed at the tournament, and to this day, I still think that my feelings for her are what caused me to win." He finished, and after taking a sip of the fantastic wine, was lost in her gaze, and they both sighed lovingly, almost in perfect rhythm.
Celestia had been made even happier as Blaze said these heartwarming things to Luna, and honestly said, "Wow, I'm so glad that you two have each other! I don't think I've ever seen two ponies more in love with each other than you!"
The couple hardly took notice of what she had just said, and moved in for a very deep kiss, full of their powerful emotions for one another. Their lips stayed locked for a few more moments, both of them enjoying the present taste of the food they had just consumed on their lips. Celestia was amazed at how long they stayed that way, and they separated, both panting for air.
"I love you more than anything, Luna." Blaze said, memorized by the mare in front of him.
"I feel exactly the same about you..." Luna trailed off, but then had a thought suddenly.
"Oh, um, Celestia? Did we get... too carried away?
Celestia had just been watching, happily, even wishing she could ever had found a stallion as dedicated as Blaze a little bit.
"Oh, no, it's fine, you can do whatever you want, it is your special night." she responded.
"Blaze, we should get to eating a little bit more," Luna spoke untruthfully to herself. In all honesty what she wanted to do was completely different.
Luna decided to push back her sexual thoughts for the duration of the dinner, and decided to bring up small subjects with Celestia, in order to make her not feel like she was there unnecessarily.
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An hour or so had passed, and during that hour, Luna had learned quite a bit about her sister that she didn't know, even to herself. Her and Blaze's hunger had been made obvious when they both ate their entire main dish, and a majority of the bread presented to them. As much as she had such a good time, she could no longer wait for what she had planned tonight.
"Celestia, thank you so much for this dinner, it was very kind of you." She said, hugging her sister tightly.
"It was no trouble, I loved your company, and how interesting the topics you brought up were, I didn't know you were so interested in my hobbies!" Celestia spoke, returning the hug, and kissing her sister on the forehead. "I take it you would like to be done with this?"
"Well, that's exactly what I was going to say. No offense to you or anything, but I just really want to-" she stopped as she realized what she was about to say.
"It's fine, sister, I appreciate your thoughtfulness, goodnight." She said with a wink.
"Are you ready Blaze?" Luna asked with a smile
"Yes, I can't wait!" He exclaimed.
Giving her sister one more loving squeeze, she trotted over to Blaze, and began walking him to her room, smiling at the snow white alicorn before she disappeared around the corner.
"So... Luna, what did you have in mind? You seemed pretty excited throughout that dinner." Blaze asked as they crossed the enclosed bridge connecting the corridors outside of Luna and Celestia's towers.
"Oh, you'll see!" Luna said suggestively as she saw her darker colored guards instead of Celestia's usually white ones, which indicated she was nearing her room.
Once she reached there, she pushed open the door, and allowed Blaze to enter before her. As she moved to go inside, she told both of her guards standing outside that she was not to be disturbed for the remainder of the night. When the two responded at the same time, "Yes, my Princess." She nodded, and slipped inside.
As the door shut with a click, she looked over at Blaze, oblivious to what she had in mind. She opened the bathroom door, and spoke softly, but audibly.
"Blaze, come here."
"Of course, Luna!" he responded, having an idea of what she was about to do.
Once he came inside of the large bathroom, she grinned, moving over to the luxurious looking bathtub.
Blaze had followed close behind her, eager to find out what she had in mind, but he knew exactly what it was when she turned the knob for warm water on the front of the bathtub, and placed several soaps and mane products on the shelves next to it.
"Luna, do you want me to bathe with you?" He asked, knowing the answer beforehand.
"Yes, I do. It will be romantic, and fun at the same time!" She exclaimed, taking hold of his hoof, and leading him closer to the tub.
"Oooh, Luna, I didn't know you liked this kind of stuff, he said with a suggestive gaze. This is going to be extraordinary." He spoke, excited. "Mares first." He said politely, helping Luna into the front of the tub.
She felt the warmth consume her as she sat in the comfortable water, and grinned when Blaze stepped in after her.
"I thought we would... begin by cleaning each other's bodies. I'll go first." She spoke, holding the new bar of soap in her hooves, and gently scrubbing Blaze's ears and cheeks.
He loved what was happening right now. He loved Luna so much, and now he was bathing with her, could this get any better? The thought that had been bothering him earlier was forgotten, for now.
As she rinsed the soap off his face, he kissed her lightly, before saying, "Please, continue."
Luna smiled, and obeyed. She began washing his neck, and upper torso, making small circles with the soap, leaving trails of suds on his dampened fur. Before she scrubbed lower, she motioned for him to turn around, and he complied, sighing in delight as she pressed a bit hard on his shoulders with her other hoof, easing the cramps he still had from his new, still unbroken into body. Kissing him again, she delicately washed his hooves and legs next. The only part of his body she hadn't cleaned now was his private area and wings.
"Are you enjoying this as much as I am?" She asked.
"If you're enjoying it a lot, then yes!" Blaze replied happily.
She placed the bar of soap under the water, where Blaze's stallionhood was, and began scrubbing, smiling as his wings began to spread in arousal. This only made it easier for her to reach every area of them. She had washed his wings rather thoroughly, as she heard him moan softly from her touch.
When she was finished, she spoke, "Now, it's your turn to wash my body." Handing the bar of soap to Blaze.
He took it, and first began at her pink crease, causing her to moan in pleasure as he worked the bar around it.
"Oh, I- I wasn't expecting you to start there!" She said with a blush.
He gave her a smirk and went downwards to her rear hooves, then slowly up to her stomach, and the area around it, taking extra care when he reached her large outspread wings. Since hers were larger than his, being an alicorn, it took him slightly longer, but this didn't stop him from being able to wash them in their entirety.
In the mean time, Luna was the epitome of a content pony, feeling wonderful as Blaze washed her. When he finally finished her front, he asked her if she could turn around so he could wash her back. She happily obeyed, and turned so that her back was facing him. He massaged her cutie marks with his soapy hooves, causing a pleasurable sigh to escape her lips.
Finally, after he was done with washing her back, she smiled, bringing him in for a wet kiss.
"Now, for our mane, I think we should both wash each other's, then plunge our heads in the water!" She exclaimed, quickly cleaning it with her magic so they didn't get the dirt and such they washed off in their faces.
Blaze agreed, and poured some of the shampoo in his hooves, rubbing them together, and then placing them in Luna's luscious mane, hugging her as he felt the silkiness of it.
At the same time, Luna applied the pleasantly scented shampoo to her hooves, and was running them through Blaze's long, multicolored mane. Since she had just reformed his body the other day, it hadn't been too dirty, but she was still enjoying this nonetheless.
By now their mane was filled with soap, and Luna decided it was time to dunk their heads in the water.
"Alright, let's do this! One, two, three!" Luna said excitedly, dipping her head in the water, quickly running her hooves through her mane at the same time until she was sure all of the soap had came out, and came back up, her wet mane covering her face completely.
Blaze had done the same, so his mane was covering his eyes as well. As they both moved it to the sides of their faces so they could see, Luna failed at stifling a giggle, and then before she knew it, she had begun laughing uncontrollably, she thought Blaze had looked hilarious that way.
"H- hey! You looked fun- funny too!" Blaze said as he too began to laugh. Standing up and taking a step out of the bathtub onto the towel on the floor, he said, "Come here, you."
Luna obeyed, standing up, water dripping onto the towel, and walked over to a waiting Blaze. He grabbed the nearest towel, and wrapped it around her. He dried himself off quickly, and placed the used table in the bin hastily, and gave Luna a tight hug. He told her he'd be on her bed, waiting, and slipped through the bathroom door into her room. His quick actions puzzled Luna, but she shrugged it off and dried her body off, before brushing her mane to make it neater. Before going back to her room to Blaze, she took one last look at herself, admiring the reflection in the mirror. She was completely clean now, and her coat glistened in the light, as well as her mane. In fact, she thought that it looked slightly better than when she bathed herself.
As she stepped into her room, she couldn't believe what she saw on her bed. The pegasus who had just happily bathed with her and shared a laugh had his face down on dampened sheets, shuddering violently, making audible sobs.
"Bl- Blaze?" she said, running over to him. "What's wrong?" She spoke, her conscience telling her to break down and be weak, as usual, but she fought her instinct, and knew that she had to take Blaze's usual role of being the strong, reassuring one.
After he didn't respond, she lifted his head up, and turning him over onto his back so she could see him. His eyes were red and tears were flowing freely. He looked at her, and cried even more. Was it something she had done? No, it couldn't had been. Could this be related to his peculiar nervousness at dinner? She lifted his head onto her chest, and let him cry onto her, rubbing his back gently.
After a few more moments, he finally spoke, "I- I'm sorry for being like this Luna, it's just that.." he stopped, the pain too great at the moment for him to continue. After gaining a small bit of composure, he spoke up again "I was thinking about my friends, and family, for the first time since you were sent the moon. How they're all long gone, and I never got to say goodbye. Though I hardly had time to talk to my family, I still miss my parents, and sister, and I regret how I never had time for them because of my flight routines. And the ponies I did get to see a lot, the members of my flight team, were like the family I never got to see. Now they're just all gone, saddened by my sudden death!" he shouted, letting more tears come.
"Blaze, it's okay. For you to go through this and make it, it highlights your forever lasting strength even more. Though this is very sad, you are doing a great job of getting through it. I love that about you." Luna said, trying her best to sound reassuring.
The intensity of his sobbing went down a bit, and Blaze spoke, "Thank you... so much. I know you've never seen me this distraught, but I don't think they'res any pony who wouldn't be like this in my situation. In fact, the only reason I can get through it... is because of you." He said, the corners of his mouth actually starting to form a smile.
"I feel the same about you. The only way I'm getting through my sadness and feeling of being hated is by having you." Luna said, noticing how no more tears were falling from Blaze's golden eyes.
"When you told me what had happened, how I had been dead for a millennium, I was a bit saddened, but was still so glad that I had you, and still do. I had been keeping all of this inside, but I realized that that's not my preferred way of dealing with my problems. Anyways, thank you for bringing me back, I am content now that I can be with the most beautiful, and thoughtful mare in Equestria once again, and lucky that I'm her stallion." He said with a sigh, ceasing his sobbing, and not letting any of his sadness from the loss of his family and friends affect him any longer.
"Oh, Blaze, I love you so much." Luna said with a loving sigh to compliment his.
What he had just said made her love for him expand once again, so much so that if asked, she couldn't explain it in words. She slowly wrapped her hooves around a now sitting up Blaze, and kissed him, with all of her passion and love for him behind it. He responded by putting his hooves around the back of her head, and pulled her down slowly with his lips locked with hers. She moaned into his mouth as she felt her heart fluttering rapidly; she could hardly contain her passion for Blaze, it felt like it was about to explode. She only separated for about a second so they could each take a breath, before continuing it again, this time even deeper than before, tongues finding each other and savoring the taste of their mouths.
By now both of their wings had extended to their full length as they kissed. Luna carefully positioned herself so that her slit was directly over his loins, and she gave him a sensual look that showed her desire to its full extent. He knew what his mare wanted, and gently slid his elongated member into her marehood, gently spreading her delicate petals so they were around him. This caused Luna to shudder in pleasure, and she smiled at the thought of how much it would be amplified soon. She gasped as he started moving in her, slowly, just how she liked it to begin. She felt nothing but absolute joy as he continued thrusting into her with her being on top. A pleasurable moan was made from the both of them with every repeated up and down motion, and Luna felt a tingling sensation making itself present in her erogenous zone.
"Oh my... please, don't stop." Luna begged.
As he heard this, he only increased his pace, with the escalating pressure in his private area.
Luna couldn't remember any time in which she had felt better. She was making love to the pony she cared about more than anything, how could it get any better than this? She knew the answer as she noticed the present feeling in her marehood becoming more noticeable, and knew she wouldn't be able to hold it for much longer. Little did she know, Blaze was feeling the same as well.
Luna moved into kiss him, the feeling of this and her genitalia being stimulated as well was unbelievable, and she let out a long moan as she felt a powerful release from her folds, along with him doing the same as well at the same moment.
"That... was.. the best.. thing I've ever felt.." Luna said between pants.
"Same here, I love you so much, dear." Blaze said sincerely, pulling her close for a hug.
Luna was beginning to feel very exhausted. She assumed this was because she had been up since the early morning, and just made love to Blaze.
"Blaze, I'm getting real tired, mind cuddling until I fall asleep?" Luna asked.
"Sure, I'm not extremely tired, but I'll be happy to get a good night's sleep, with you by my side." He replied lovingly.
Luna grinned, and turned off the lights with her magic as she got under the deep blue covers with Blaze, feeling his very comfortable mane against her face as she drifted off to sleep.
