//------------------------------// // Chapter 29: Changes and Weddings // Story: My Little Pony: Make Your Mark In Love // by SamSwordsman123 //------------------------------// A few days passed in Zephyr Heights after Opaline’s defeat. Queen Haven had put together a celebration for the event. Right Light and General Bloodheart had been found guilty of treason and sentenced for their crimes. Now they were no more. Dirty Fighter was gone as well, he’d tried to hurt Posey after she was done giving him payback for what he did to her, but Zoom had stopped him and ended him for good. Now all the villains were dealt with, though Sunny wished their penalty hadn’t had to run so deep. “Would Great Aunt Twilight have done that to them?” she asked her mother as they sat on a cloud over Zephyr Heights. Sunny hadn’t known that ponies with wings like Pegasi or alicorns could stand on clouds thanks to their magic. It was fluffy yet hard at the same time for her. “Sometimes Aunt Twilight did destroy villains,” Flurry told her daughter. “Like King Sombra or the Pony of Shadows. More often though she would simply strip them of their power or turn them to stone. But what those ponies did was high treason, against both my Equestria and yours. Bloodheart freed Opaline and caused seven hundred years of disunity, Right Light betrayed Zephyr Heights, and both he and Dirty Fighter committed or tried to commit unspeakable things.” Sunny sighed. “Maybe. Still, I don’t really support the death penalty.” Flurry nodded. “Not a pretty thing. But sometimes it just has to be done for the crime.” There was a moment of silence. “Say, how did you meet my dad anyway?” Sunny asked. “It was nearly two decades ago,” Flurry said. “Your father came to the dragon lands on his own hoping to maybe make friends with a dragon. He always believed in the legends of my aunt, even though so many others had forgotten the lessons… thanks to Opaline’s dark influence. Spike and Ember were still asleep at the time. Your father and I spent many days together and eventually… we… you know. He left, hoping to tell Earth Ponies it was true that they could be friends with other kinds. It didn’t work of course since they were so set in their fear. But you carried on his legacy, and the legacy of your great aunt. I wanted you to be able to interact with other ponies when I brought you there by boat and snuck into your father’s light house at night. But I’m very proud of you, and Twilight would be as well.” Sunny smiled at the praise. They looked up and imagined Twilight Sparkle smiling down at them. “I guess, now she can rest peacefully,” Sunny said. Flurry nodded. “There will always be new challenges ahead. I’m sure we’ll run into another villain sooner or later. No matter how peaceful things get, there will always be darkness. But there will also always be light to meet it. As long as we have unity, friendship, and love, harmony will prevail in the end.” “Hey, Sunny!” a voice called. The two alicorns looked and saw Zipp coming. “You ready to head back to Maretime Bay?” Zipp asked. “My mom says we’ve done enough for helping rebuild Zephyr Heights and should go back there as its probably in more need.” Seeing as Maretime Bay had been through a more direct battle then Zephyr Heights that was probably true. Sunny nodded and looked at her mom. “Will you be coming back with us, Mom?” she asked. “It would be great to have you in my life now!” “I suppose I could afford to spend time with my little Sunny Bunny!” Flurry said booping her daughter’s nose. Sunny giggled. “Mom!” … Spike and Ember flew them… Sunny (who had returned to her Earth Pony form when she landed back on the ground), Misty, Izzy, and Hitch on their backs. Flurry, Fireforge, Zipp, and Pipp all flew alongside the dragons. Spike smiled widely as he looked down upon Equestria, it was finally back to the way it used to be. Ponies were united, and Opaline was no longer a threat. “Thinking of Aunt Twilight?” Flurry asked. “Yeah,” Spike said. “We finally fixed her legacy. I just wish she and all our friends were here to see it.” “They’d be proud of you Spike,” Flurry said nuzzling him softly. “And we will one day see them. It might take some thousand years for us to reach the end of our journey, but we will eventually.” She still wasn’t sure if she’d throw in the towel early and stop using her life prolonging magic at a certain point. But since it allowed fifty years to be equal to one for her, she could live to the age of five thousand or a bit more. But she’d at least spend time with Sunny now. They finally arrived in Maretime Bay and saw the Brighthouse which looked… “The Brighthouse!” Sunny exclaimed. It now had a more menacing look to it and it looked more like a castle now with another pair of towers on either side of the main one. “Wow, Opaline wasn’t kidding when she said the Brighthouse changed!” Sunny said. “But it’s a little dark for my taste.” “Mine too,” Pipp said. The dragons landed and the earth-bound ponies got off. At least the marestream was still intact, Opaline must not have been able to operate it. They walked through the inside and saw the walls were black, purple and blue, reminding them of Opaline and her fire as well as her dark heart. The new towers that had formed on the sides consisted of only single rooms at the top that connected to the center where they had kept the Unity Crystals before. “Well, I suppose we could use more space now that Flurry’s here,” Izzy said. “The main bedroom is getting pretty full with five of us in there.” Sunny, Zipp, Pipp, and Misty nodded. “Oh, I don’t mind,” Flurry said. “I’m happy taking this room.” “What about the other one?” Fireforge asked looking at the tower on the opposite side through the window. “We could probably use a guest room,” Sunny said. “You think we can fix it and make it look good again?” Zipp asked. “It will take a lot of work,” Izzy said. “But I’m up to the task of making our home look much less evil! How dare Opaline defile it!” “I think I know how to fix it!” Flurry said as she levitated the crystals over to the central tower they’d been in before. As soon as they were inside the room, they moved and took back their place. A light shined and the Brighthouse turned back to much of its old form, though in a castle like structure now. It was blue, pink, and just… bright again. The burns from Opaline’s fire vanished, though not all the items inside were restored. “Well, good thing we’re royalty and can have these replaced in a wing flap,” Pipp said as she looked at her burned bed. Zipp looked over at her investigation board. “Guess I’ll have to start all over again. Opaline’s case has been cracked wide open I’d say so time to make room for new ones!” “And I guess Fireforge will be my new deputy now!” Hitch said. “You really want me?” Fireforge asked in surprise. “After what I did?” “Sure, you more than made up for that helping us escape and… more,” Hitch said. Pipp approached Fireforge with a smile. “Thanks a lot for what you did for me and my sister,” Pipp said giving the alicorn prince a hug. “Yeah, thanks,” Zipp echoed. “You really saved us there.” Fireforge returned the smile. “But I don’t think you can live under Sunny’s roof… yet…” Hitch said. Flurry smirked. “I trust you as a changed pony, but yeah, I don’t want you living under the same roof as my daughter right now.” “Well, we’ll have plenty of time for that later,” Sunny said with a smirk. Fireforge chuckled. “All the time in the world. Or at least a few thousand years if we both acquire the great magic power.” “I think I’m good either way,” Sunny said. She looked at her other friends. If she did acquire the life prolonging magic, she would outlive them. But at least she’d have her mother, Spike, Ember and Fireforge by her side. Perhaps that would be enough. Regardless, she knew she’d have a wonderful life ahead of her without the threat of Opaline. She and her friends would face it together, whether it be joy, or sorrow. But she knew of at least one thing that was coming up in the near future. … A month went by and soon, a royal wedding took place in Zephyr Heights. Alphabittle stood at the altar along with Flurry and the Mane 7. Sunny, Hitch and Fireforge were on one side, while Zipp, Pipp and Misty were on the other. Izzy stood closest to Alphabittle as Best Mare since it was her journey to Maretime Bay and then here that had started the chain of events that allowed him to meet his love. The trumpets sounded as the bride, Queen Haven entered the hall, the Pipsqueak trio behind her throwing flowers from their baskets. Haven approached the altar and the Pipsqueaks took their places in the audience. Flurry then spoke as the pony who would marry them, since Haven wanted the ceremony to be done by an alicorn, something that hadn’t occurred in seven hundred years. “We are gathered here today for a momentous occasion,” Flurry said. “Two ponies, of two different kinds, have found love! For many centuries unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies lived in fear of one another. But now, two leaders of those kinds of ponies have decided to join their lives together. May it bring all of Equestria together in everlasting unity and friendship that will never break again!” Haven and Alphie nodded. “That would be most pleasing!” Haven said. “I agree!” Alphabittle concurred. “Do you Queen Haven, take Chief Alphabittle to be your lawfully wedded husband?” Flurry asked. “I do,” Queen Haven said. “And do you Chief Alphabittle, take her majesty Queen Haven to be your wife?” “With all my heart,” Alphabittle said. “Then I pronounce this couple, mare and stallion!” Flurry said. “You may kiss!” The royal couple did. Then Zoom and Thunder stepped forward with the latter holding a crown on a pillow in his hooves. “And with his marriage to our queen, Alphabittle is now… King of Zephyr Heights!” Zoom said. Alphie bowed his head as Zoom flew up just off the ground. She took the crown off the pillow before putting it on his head. “All hail King Alphabittle!” Thunder declared. A cheer sounded and four words echoed through the room. “Long live the king! Long live the king! Long live the king!” “And don’t forget my daughter!” Alphabittle said gesturing to Misty. “I was separated from her for many moons. But I’m glad to have found her again, and to have a new family to share with her!” Misty blushed as she received her own tiara put on her head by Izzy. “Hail Princess Misty! Now Bridlewood is a kingdom too!” Izzy declared. “May we all rule together in unity and harmony!” Flurry finished. And they planned to do so for many moons to come.