Dragoon Legacy - The Rising Silence

Outside the temple, the sun was slowing creeping in while the moon sank on the other side. One would say it was just another day like no other. Peaceful and cheerful day filled with bird welcoming anyone to the surroundings. Although Everfree forest was known as a dangerous place it was mostly to keep the curious pony out of it.
This had to be one of the reasons why Sirus felt so comfortably leaving the gateway to his home concealed by a simple cloak spell.

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Waking up in panic, Sirus realised his brother would want to chase him today, following every single step he made until Eon finally got what he wanted. If Sirus just disappeared his brother would certainly come up with a lot of questions, which some shouldn’t even be asked. Not to mention that Sirus would rise a lot of suspicious that something was on… and last thing the blue dragoon wanted was a black mist getting too close to her…being the worst part his reaction if Eon did discover that she was the one… the one that imprisoned Luna for such long time… his head started to hurt with all the bad things that could happen but was brought back to reality when he heard something… it resembled the act of someone sawing a tree.

Taking a glance to the source of the noise, he noticed his brother sleeping with both his legs and arms pointing upwards, mouth fully open with some droll coming out of the corners... “just like a puppy…” Sirus knew he was in a good position to elaborate a plan. It didn’t take long before an idea formed on his fussy mind.

"Perfect" a little smile formed on his lips while he searched for the saddle with the golden cubes of sugar. Looking at those things brought a chilling effect on his back… he was going to become one of those things again… all because of her…*sigh* he couldn’t deny at this stage he was pretty much falling over her.

Sirus collected his thoughts once more and develop more his plan. Knowing his brother for almost an eternity had some advantages and this was one of them. Eon always loved a little challenge specially if there was something to prove.

Looking at that black mist that covered Eon, Sirus could only wonder how they were brothers but yet so different. “Speaking of black and white… but I guess in many ways that’s what we are… none the less we are still colours casted away from the rainbow huh?” he was trailing off to some more deep thinking when his brother threaten to wake up. “Sh…t” quickly Sirus gathered his ideas again and swallowed one of those sugar cubes.

In an instance everything around him seemed to double the size, that feeling alone was a bit creepy since he was used to everything being so small.

It didn’t take long before Eon woke up. His red eyes gazed upon the small Pegasus in front of him. It took a moment to realize that in front of him, was a creature that wasn’t supposed to be there or even around the area by a few good thousand miles. Surprised he took a leap back and still couldn’t believe his eyes. “am I dreaming?!” he thought

“How?.... What?... Who?...wait…” Eon couldn’t even decide what to ask first, not to mention that even speaking to a creature like that could spell disaster.

“Relax you idiot, do you even think remotely that a pony would be able to reach this place?” the little Pegasus spoke with an all too familiar voice

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After a few moments Sirus was explaining to his brother what he did… theoretically… that he casted a spell that in some moments would teleport him to a certain mare that meet certain criteria that he defined. Once it found the right one for him it would teleport directly to her. This would cover the reason why he would disappear out of nowhere and also explain why he would be near her. For Sirus this was more than enough to clear his name of any suspicious behaviour. Also if his brother played by the rules he wouldn’t be close enough when he was being introduced to the rest of 'gang' leaving him with enough time to prepare another excuse.

A sudden chill came across Sirus, the thought of a bunch of weird females all together with him... he at least wished that a tom boyish girl existed so he could try and talk something other than ‘whatever a bunch of mares talks this days’ or in simple terms, a mare that won’t go ballistic with clothing, make up, fashion and... he started to reject such possibility.

"nah... that would be a weird bunch... a princess like her must have certain standards to address them as friends... yeah it makes perfect sense... she couldn’t possibly have-"

Again a sudden chill came across his spine. Sirus could almost tell the following two weeks were going to be a bit... difficult

But none the less this was also going to be different from usual. It’s been so long since anything really happened.

Things would either be him roaming alone, deciding what to eat and soaring in the skies as much as he desired or, whenever his brother woke up, was to be sure to keep him out of trouble until he felt bored and fell asleep for another couple of years or so.

Yup this was actually something different. Sirus was going to spend two weeks with a particular someone. His newly found sky

Not only her... but also a bunch of unknown females that gave him chills for some reason and to top it off he had his brother spying on him like a voyeur

A smile crept in his face. He had a good feeling that the following weeks were going to be much more than he could possibly think

"This is going to be something"

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*POOF*

In front of Eon nothing remained but a weird mist. His brother was nowhere to be seen. It had only passed a few seconds since Sirus pronounced his last words.

“Weird… anyway, time to go hunting” the mist evolving the dark winged beast started to expand. Setting his mind with only one goal, he started to search for his brother. Thoughts and images of several places came rushing to his mind while he sensed previous places where his brother had once passed.

Mostly they were sceneries of the sky, almost outside of the atmosphere. At this point one could see the stars even if it was daytime… but that wasn’t what Eon was searching. He kept diving into other images in search for a clue when a sudden image stroke his mind that froze him.

The palace, a balcony… and her…

For some brief moments he could see her eyes gazing upon the land, her posture was so majestic even in the day light…

Abruptly he stopped the search only to back fire this little spell and provoking him a very acute pain in his head that lasted for a few short seconds.

“Lu..na..” Eon didn’t know why his brother’s magic would be so close to them… specially since Sirus made sure they were always very far from everything that was remotely of royal origin… in a sense royalty brought painful memories hence the reason of his older brother reactions.

That thought was long gone when the red eyed beast took focus on her again… “If she only knew…”

Surely Eon wasn’t the type of male that would be happy with just one female and he admitted that since he took a liking to those pony creatures. But then something changed… a very weird coincidence.

“Should I?...” all the thrill to seek his brother was almost gone and some of his sense told him it would be easier to find Sirus if he waited a couple of days. Almost like making a plausible excuse for himself, he set his mind on her again.

“I bet I can sneak in again without no one even realizing”

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“Hmmm n-n--- sto…p…” noises could be heard from a certain bush that seemed to have a life of its own... “hmmm..aaahhh…”

Sirus didn’t knew what took over him, if it was the fact that the previous nightmare actually scared the hell out of him or if it was the fact that Celestia turned herself into a mini version of her former self that made her the cutest light pink unicorn he had seen in his entire existence… or probably both.

“Siru- hmm..ughh st..top… hmmm not… ugh no-t there…” or maybe it was the fact that she was fighting back which was all too new for him. Why she was fighting back he didn’t had a clue but it was surely making him burning with desire.

“Hmm.. ahhh… AAAHaahhh” her sweet voice also seemed to match her new form. Still, the vision from the lower part of her body was heaven to Sirus… and the way she was fighting back was just too much.

“P.. ughh-mmm please…stop.. s… hmm AAAGggghhh-hmmm” Sirus noticed she was overly sensitive. Did she cast something extra when she became a unicorn? No that wasn’t it, Sirus couldn’t feel even a speck of magic.

Sirus stopped his assault in her private area, his mouth completely wet… She could barely breathe and was trying hard to grab anything by her side in attempts to regain any control over her body. Her eyes were unfocused, mouth fully opened grasping for air and her mane was a complete mess.

“I can’t take it anymore” was his only thought as he crept slowly to be on top of her.

To his surprise Celestia seemed to get a quick boost to her control and jumped from his grasp

“Hmm?” Sirus got a bit confused, she was still trying to catch her breath and by the sounds escaping her mouth it wouldn’t take long before she would reach the heavens… so why did she jump?

“Celly? Is something wrong” he approached her slowly, making sure he could corner her to the tree she had her back against, placing himself right in between her rear legs. Again something surprised him. She covered her private parts.

“C-can we… do this another t-time?” her voice was a mix of ecstasy and… she seemed rather nervous, Sirus took notice that she was trembling a bit “M-my friends are coming soon…” she couldn’t avoid biting her lip. Her body expressing so hard what she wanted but yet Celestia’s early reaction of her was also so natural…

“Hmm ok… but didn’t you told me they are coming in the evening?” on his mind was also the reasons that they were nowhere to be found near a cliff next to the sea and it was noon. Unless Celestia would tell exactly where they were now it was impossible for somepony to find them……. “oh sh…” he totally forgot that his brother was on the lose tracking him… for all Sirus knew he could be already watching them “Ahaha~ look at the time… lets grab some lunch shall we?” he tried to smile as naturally as he could, forgetting the fact that his mouth was still dripping from the previous action.

For some reason both felt glad that they could forget what happened and went back to the little town near the seaside.

“Here…” Celestia used her magic to create a little white cloth and proceeded to clean his mouth earning him a certain blush. She smiled at this but also shared the same blush when their eyes meet. She didn’t realise she was leaning closer to him, closing her eyes and slowly opening her mouth. For all she could think, she didn’t know why she was feeling so…
She didn’t had the right word to describe it… it was good as it is, no words to spoil the feeling.

After the short kiss they proceed to go back to the place they were staying, a small house somewhat near the sea. Both of them just enjoyed the walk down to the town. Each one of them slowing realizing that this was the point of no return… still… there was fear lingering in their hearts.

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“I wonder… if she ever dreamt… the one that stood by her for so long…” Eon was taking a good glance to the palace. Flying so high above the skies and being the same colour of the night sky had its good perks. Night was already installed and the moon was now fully visible from the horizon.

The dark dragon like creature never meet personally the creature that he felt so connected but having this one chance of seeing her so closely again was worth the risk of being exposed. If anything his brother would help him clean up any mess that might occur…

Spotting the balcony that Eon was tracking he swept the area with a bit of dark magic. The good thing about dark magic is undoubtedly very hard to sense in the night and only a very huge amount of it would raise any magic user to its presence.

“All clear” with those words he started to descend at very high speeds trying to get to the balcony as fast as he could. Being covered by his own magic gave him a stealthy approach to the palace, making almost no sound or causing any air friction.

Before he impacted the balcony he came to a sudden stop making a very soft sound when his claws made contact to the cold stony ground. Eon took a few good steps inside and wanted to gather as much detail about this place in case he had to bail out of there but something caught his attention, the door that accessed this room slowly opened.

*POOF*

“But princess…” a male’s voices echoed through the room

“Concealer I appreciate your skills on such matters, above all I am thankful for your concern about my wellbeing but you must understand.” A female voice boomed into the room.

“Please Princess Luna… reconsider this offer, the parliament would like to ease your duty and take some of the-“

“Concealer, I shall consider all that you spoke but as of this moment my answer is still no.” a silence was made for a few moments “but if it eases your mind, tomorrow I shall give you my final answer”

“Oh thank you Princess, I will take my leave. Have a good night” with those last words some presence seemed to leave the room and the sound of closing doors echoed the room.

“Ughhh…” the female voice echoed through the room once more. Eon could only guess that was the Princess. He was so glad that for some reason royalty loved high ceilings and with the odd taste on dark colour schemes of this room the night creature jumped to the ceiling and casted a quick magic to extend his mist through the ceiling making sure he could cover all of his body.

“To think… they want me to take a break as well…” she was clearly angry for some reason and Eon could also sense she was also tired.

For some moments he could only listen to her rants about her day to day duties and about whatever else she was complaining “I liked her better when she was on the moon… less noisy” he could only chuckle at that thought.

After some time the Alicorn had come to a halt, no noises were made and this was the moment Eon was waiting for… that is… if I didn’t fell asleep in the process.

Whatever made him hold on to the celling wasn’t doing a good job because it didn’t take long until he fell from the ceiling on top of the sleeping Alicorn. Lucky for both most of his weight fell on the mattress making Luna jump a few inches from the bed.

After both of them twisted around the bed trying to make sense of what happen they froze.

Eon was on top of the lavender princess, his arms were pinning her down and his lower body was connected to hers. Several seconds passed while they just stared at each other. Eon was only wishing she didn’t scream, his mind trying his best to come up with something to say that wouldn’t spell disaster. But his thoughts were cut off.

“Would you mind getting off me?” her voice was plain “You are quite heavy” at the last sentence she seemed also annoyed

“… y-yes” was the only thing Eon could mutter. As he tried to move it seemed that the bed sheets were tightly wrapped around them. He struggled a bit trying his best to break free.
“UGHH!!!!” the Alicorn let a sound come out of her mouth. She seemed in pain. This didn’t surprised him too much, the weight of a dragon like creature isn’t exactly a feather it was almost natural that she got hurt at some point.

“S-… sorry.. but…” the dark creature muttered a few words “I can’t break free unless I rip the sheets”

A few moments of silence again when Luna spoke again, very annoyed at this point “try again” she said plainly. Eon once again tried to break free but only got a few more painful sounds from the princess…

“My left rear hoof...” Luna spoke. Eon could notice beads of sweat forming on her head. She was clearly in pain but… why didn’t she scream for help… why didn’t she used magic to blast him away… and especially why was she trying to be so calm and collected around him in this situation but his thoughts were again broken by her voice “Please… be careful around there…”

“I can ease your pain if you want” it was the least he could do for her since he was the one to create this mess.

“…” Luna clearly didn’t want to answer him so she just nodded. Casting her eyes to the side she seemed to enter in another world of her own.

“This will feel a bit… odd” he could only try and guess what was she thinking but at the moment everything seemed so strange. Focusing on his task, several vines slowly crept on Luna’s left rear hoof. “You need to guide me…”

“Huh?” seemed that the night princess was taken by surprise …

“Tell me where it hurts” his voice held a certain tone of caring for her

“A bit higher…” she could feel a very odd and yet familiar feeling.

“Here?” his voice was low

“Yes…” she replied not so plainly as before.

“Why didn’t you scream?” he asked

“I don’t need to”

“Why didn’t you casted me away?”

“I don’t need to”

Silence took over the room…

“It’s been a millennia since then…” Luna’s voice broke the silence

“Huh?!?” Eon was taken by surprise.

“During that time you were the only creature that would feel as I did…”

“Huh?!?!” at this point a certain chill came across his mind. She remembered who was he? But how? He never showed around her.

“To blend with the few that would be celebrate the night… I took an alias… created an illusion of myself and roamed freely through the land searching for something to share my night”

“…” Eon was still unsure, what did she mean an alias? And a millennia ago, before that event happened he only knew somepony that actually spent the nights with him…

“I still remember… next to a lake… I did hurt my hoof…but I couldn’t use magic or else it would be to obviously… and you… you healed me…” she was trailing off

“Next to a lake? Wait…” a thought came across his mind… the only pony that spent almost ten years with him flying through the night skies…. “Stella?”

“That name brings me so much…” she paused in a certain nostalgia “I still remember… the first Pegasus to cast a spell… a Pegasus that no one knew… only Stella knew and her alone”

“But?!...”

“Do you remember when we used to gaze upon the stars and how you always told me that you rather life an eternity in the night than actually in the day”

“… yes…” At this point the dark creature could only reply as he forced himself to accept the story and see where this would lead. The dark mist that engulfed him started to die out little by little, showing a dragon like creature almost completely black in colour with the exception of a few red stripes that seemed to flow along his members and tail. His wings were now visible and were made of a strange looking dark purple crystal

“Ten years…” Luna closed her eyes and took a deep breath… “I always casted the same spell… the image that is still engraved in the books before that event… a lonely princess near a lake gazing at the skies… little they knew I was all but lonely…”

“…” he remembered her smile, and how she felt so happy around him… he also had to admit it… during those 10 years he didn’t feel like looking for some extra fun… he only wanted to be with her and gaze the stars with her… but at the same time he started to feel attached to the night princess.

Eon didn’t know why but whenever he was around Stella she always talked about the princess and something fascinated about that lonely soul. Something lured him towards her. Being close to Stella made him feel closer to Luna and in return every time he wanted to be with Stella was because he wanted to be closer to the night princess.

“But then…” she took another deep breath “when I finally opened my heart to you…”

“…” a sudden chill came across Eon’s spine… in all his existence he only broke one mare’s heart. And that was Stella’s

“I still recall the reason…” her voice was without emotion “I am in love with another one…”

“…” at this point he didn’t know if he should say anything or let her talk for a little longer

“Love… because of that... a millennia in solitude… or at least that’s what is written in the book” Luna slowly opened her eyes and gazed to the balcony “while I was there all by myself, still recovering from my wounds I cried desperately…” at this point the princess voice seemed to get a certain emotion… anger. “I shouted countless times to the void of space… trying to ask why did this happen to me? All I wanted was something to cherish even if it was for a brief moment in existence”

“… I…”

“SHUT UP!!!” anger filled her voice but also in the corner of her eyes, tears were forming. She faced Eon and kept her gaze trying to pierce his soul. The little light that filled the room was being reflected by those pearls of sadness that threaten to fall “just…sh-*sob* shut up” her face still held anger but her voice was the first thing to crack.

“Please… Jus-”

“No!!! You keep listening” she was clearly not in the mood to be taken down just yet. Not until she took everything out of her chest “I know what you did after awards…” she tried to clear the tears that formed with one of her hooves, shacking badly she managed to remove them and took another deep breath to regain some posture. Slowly she gazed back to the balcony, still beneath him, feeling his heartbeat.

“I remember… after shouting all my soul out, I fell unconsciously. At that time I only had one thing in mind, I wanted that feeling back… I wanted to be loved even it was by force!!!” that last words almost sounded like Nightmare Moon revived for a very brief moments. This didn’t affect Eon at all, that kind of darkness was what he held for so long

“And then…” Lunas voice now held a tone of longing and caring “…that feeling… that odd yet familiar magic surrounding me… caring for me… as if Eon was there… tending for me again…” a small tear escaped Luna’s eye and rolled across her cheek leaving a bright trail behind, reflected by her own moon.

“…” Eon knew at this stage that little could he do to fix this situation…

“Why… couldn’t you… just come to me?” her voice trembled “why *sob* ?” the princess now held her sobs as much as she could “I just wanted to be with YOU!!!!” she shouted loud enough to echo through the corridor from her tower. “I… I…” Luna’s voice was now replaced by sobs while she buried her face next to his shoulder crying tears that she held on for a millennia.

“I do too” Eon replied only to get more sobs from the princess. He held her in a gentle embrace doing the thing he should have done a millennia ago. Share a single moment with her.

Using a bit of magic he raised both of them in the air to unwrap from the bed sheets they got stuck. In all that commotion he didn’t realize that he could have done that from the start. Lowering their bodies to the bed, he held her close. Luna kept crying, a thousand years have passed since the last day she was near him and now having Eon holding her made overflow with emotions. The last thing she cared was if he was a Pegasus, a dragon or any other kind of creature. For the once exiled princess Eon would always be Eon.