“It’s been a week since the wedding,” I said pacing back and forth in Fluttershy’s living room.
“Yes, it has, what are you so worried about?” Fluttershy questioned.
“Nothing! But, is it too soon to call Twilight and ask her if I can talk to her?” I said that too fast, she’s not going to believe it's nothing.
“Well, it shouldn’t be, but isn’t it a little concerning to Sombra that you always want to be around her?”
Crap! I haven’t thought this through. “I mean, it shouldn’t be, Twilight has always been an honest mare, why would she be dishonest now?”
“People can change, but if you want to talk to her so badly, then you should do it.”
“Mama! Look what I can do!” said Harmony, Fluttershy’s daughter, as she galloped over.
“What is it sweetie?” Fluttershy responded, turning so she was facing Harmony.
Harmony smiled then flapped her little wings until she was about 6 inches off the ground. “See me mama! I can fly!”
“Wonderful! Go show papa, he’d love to see you fly.” Fluttershy giggled.
“Alright!” and with that, Harmony galloped outside, practically bouncing with excitement.
“Anyway,” Flutttershy turned back to face me, trying not to move too much. “Go talk to her, I’m sure she’d love to see you.”
“I will, thanks Fluttershy!” I said as I walked over to her, and lightly hugged her.
“You’re very welcome Luna.” Fluttershy said as she kindfully accepted the hug.
“Do you want me to get Discord on my way out? I think you might need some help moving until you give birth.”
“That would be appreciated, thanks,” Fluttershy smiled.
I walked out of her cozy little house, and I saw Discord with Harmony. “Discord, Fluttershy might need some help.” I winked and stretched my wings in preparation to fly.
“Alright then, thank you for stopping by!” Discord waved and started walking inside with Harmony.
“Thank you for having me!” and with that I took off. Seeing Fluttershy and her family had been nice, but it only increased the ache of the want for my own family. There was only one pony I would want to share that with, but of course, she had gotten married, so she was off-limits. My mind started to wander, thinking about Twilight, her with that.. Monster. [I gritted my teeth. It may be contradicting, since I had been one myself, but that was a different side of me, Sombra didn’t have that. He was only Sombra, there was no “dark side” to him, it was just him, and that was his only form.
I landed at the castle entrance, and took a deep breath before walking towards the door. There were two guards at the door, they must’ve been new since I hadn’t seen them before.
“Hello, I’m here to see Queen Twilight Sparkle,” I said.
“Do you have an invite?” said the bigger, yet shorter brown stallion.
“No, I don’t. I just came here to talk.”
“I think you have to have an invite to come in, sorry.”
“Dude, let her in. That’s Princess Luna, I’m sure she’s not here to hurt Queen Twilight or King Sombra,” said the lanky orange stallion.
“Oh, sorry Princess,” the brown stallion bowed. “You may go in.”
The orange stallion opened the large doors with his magic.
“Thank you,” I bowed. “Have a nice day.” I walked in and the doors closed behind me.
I remember these halls, going through here is like muscle memory. The beautiful, large colored windows let in light of different color. I stopped just before the door into the throne room. I sighed, and opened the doors.
“Luna?!” Twilight gasped. She had been reading, like she always was.
“Hey Twilight,” I bowed.
“No need to bow silly, I’m not uptight about that.” she walked down to pull me into a tight embrace. I didn’t want to let her go, but all good things had to come to an end.
“What do you want to talk about?” Twilight asked as she summoned me to follow her onto the balcony.
“Nothing in particular,” I looked at the ground. I felt selfish, but I couldn’t help it.
“Well, that's ok. We can find something to talk about. Anything to get away from royalty talk.” she sat down. “Where’d you come from? I thought you had already flown off with Celestia.”
“I decided to stay. At least for a little while. Celestia stayed too, she has just been in the house we’re staying at, relaxing.” I sat down beside her. It may have been too close, but friends sit close, right?
“Oh, well that's great! It means I can still see you ponies,” she smiled. She had a very pretty smile.
“Yes, I’m glad I get to see you.” Maybe a little too glad. “So what have you been up to?”
“Well, obviously I have my duties as queen to fulfill. I don’t know how you ponies did it.” She looked out into the distance, where she would eventually set the sun. “Since it hasn’t been terribly busy, I’ve gotten to spend a lot more time with Sombra. He’s very sweet, and I think soon enough he’ll be good enough where he doesn’t have restricted magic!”
I stared at my hooves in horror. Without restriction? Was she crazy? He could do whatever he wants with her if that happens. “Well that's great!” I said trying to sound convincing.
“I know! Then it’ll be perfect! He will be free, and we can enjoy our lives!”
She’s never this excited, yes, she can be excited, but her talking about him like this, makes me feel like something’s up, but what can I do.
“He’s perfect Luna, you have to get to know him.” she looked at me. “Are you ok?”
I lifted my head up and put on my “I’m ok” smile. “Yes, Twi, don’t worry about me.” we were inches away, I could smell the perfume she had, roses, it was different, a more mature scent, but still nice. All good things come to an end, because Sombra had walked out to the balcony to join us.
“Well, hello Luna. I wasn’t aware you were coming,” Sombra walked over with a tray of teacups and tea. “Good thing I brought an extra cup.” he smirked.
“Thank you honey. You know you don’t have to make tea everyday.” Twilight got up to rub Sombra’s snout with her own.
“It’s no problem, really.” He started pouring tea into the three cups. “Here you go Luna.” He lifted the cup with his magic and I instinctively took the cup with my own.
“Thanks,” I looked in the cup and sniffed the tea. Some sort of herbal blend.
He gave a cup to Twilight and then lifted his own, Twi had put her wing around Sombra, but I tried not to pay too much attention to it. We drank our tea in silence, all that was heard was the rustle in the leaves from the breeze.
“I should get going, I don’t want my sister to worry.” I said, putting down my cup.
“Alright, it was nice seeing you Luna. I hope I see you again soon.” Twilight said, getting up to hug me.
“Yes, it was nice to see you,” Sombra said. It sounded like he forced out the word “nice”, but it didn’t bother me, I didn’t want to see him anyway.
“Goodbye,” I waved with my wing. I began to wall back through the halls to the entrance doors. Nothing had changed since I was here last, except for the smell. It smelt different, older, but I’m probably imagining things. I looked at the windows with the art and history, still, nothing changed. I hope Twilight will be ok, I don’t really trust Sombra, but she seems happy, and that's all that matters, right? I hadn’t realized how fast I’d been walking and I almost ran into the doors. I opened them and got ready for flight. That's all that matters, Twilight’s happiness. With that in mind, I lifted off and headed towards the house.