Luna I'm waiting for you

by JosephRascon1789


Chapter 2

Chapter 2

"......ot sure what happened. I just found him on the hill trying to walk down. He just suddenly collapsed" Said somepony. "When I picked him up he just kept saying the name Luna over and over again."

I couldn't feel or see anything. Those voices, along with a beeping sound that repeated every five to seven seconds, were the only things I could hear. There was light breaking through my eyelids and it was making my head hurt. With the pain came the sense of touch. There was something over my whole body and it made me feel warm. I opened my eyes and was greeted with a blinding light that caused me to move. I could hear hooves tapping against some kind of tile floor. I tried to pull myself up, but I felt something against my chest pushing me down gently.

"Sir you can't be moving that much. Please just rest on the bed." A mares voice broke the constant and annoying beeping.

I didn't feel like putting up a fight so I relaxed my body and let the mare push me down. I groaned when I opened my eyes. The light was still bright but I refused to keep my eyes closed.

"Sir you are in a hospital. You were brought here by this stallion." A stallion's voice this time. "You had passed out on the hill north of the town. Do you remember being there?"

I remembered and it was almost impossible to believe. I nodded as the painful memories came shooting back into my head

Where did my princess go?

Just asking that question made me tear up. I wanted to sit up and put my hooves on my face so nopony would see me cry. It was like having somepony come and take your heart and actually breaking it. The mare held me down and I knew it was impossible to fight back in this condition. I was taking deep breathes and slowly letting them out.

I looked over to the doctor and the stallion who saved me. I had a little smile on my face when I spoke in a quiet voice. "Thank you..... Icy Wind. I'm sure if you didn't run into me, I would have died."

"Well I did what I could" He replied with a hoof on the back of his neck.

"Lighting you need your sleep. If you need anything, pull on this string and a nurse will be here to help you asap."

I nodded and the three ponies walked out of the room. I couldn't hold it back anymore, tears started flowing and my heart dropped. I wasn't sure what to feel besides sadness and pain. I wanted to just fall a sleep and stay in my dreams.

Maybe there.... In my dreams we could be together.

I pulled on the string and a mare walked into my room. She smiled and trotted over to my bed. "You called?" I nodded with out looking at her. "Well what would you like?" She asked kindly.

"I need something to help me sleep. I'm in pain." I said coldly.

I'm not sure what her reaction was, but she trotted to the corner of the room and I heard a glass door open. I looked up and saw the mare who was helping me escape this cruel world. She was a normal looking pony with a red cross on her flank. She had a white coat and a blond mane that was tied together into a small ball on the back of her head. She was searching the cabinet for a mixture that would help me sleep. I was staring at the little containers then back at her. I don't know why but it was like I had met her before.

She turned her head and saw me staring aimlessly at her. "Do you have any pain?" That question brang me back.

"Oh um..... Yeah I do." I replied There was no physical pain, but the emotional pain was making me slip off the edge from sadness to depression.

"It's been a long time..... Lighting." The mare said when she turned around.

How does she know my name?

"I still remember the day we met. You had just gotten off the train from Canterlot." She said while grabbing a vile of clear liquid.

I put my hoof on my fore head and tried to remember. I had taken the train to Canterlot many times and met many ponies. The paintings of the night were desired by all the rich and royal ponies so I made so many trips, it was second nature. When I looked up she was standing next to my bed.

"I don't want to be rude... But how did we meet?" I asked.

She stopped checking the equipment and looked into my eyes. I was staring into her orange eyes and started getting memories. I looked away and closed my eyes and she continued checking the equipment.

She let out a small chuckle and looked at me. "Yeah I don't think you would remember how we met."

That made me more confused. "What's that suppose to mean?" I asked.

"You were pretty drunk." She said bluntly. "You couldn't even stand up. I saw you and offered my help to get you to where ever you lived." She smiled.

Getting that drunk after a trip to Canterlot....

My thinking was interrupted when the nurse pony spoke again. "Yeah the whole way home you were saying how much you loved her and you would die for her."

My stomach tensed up and I broke into a cold sweat as the memory shot into my head. Every drunken word and sound flowed into my head and played out.

"Yeah you were drunk. You kept pointing to the night sky and then tipping a bottle back until you got home. Even in your drunken state you never said her name."

"Luna..... I was talking about princess Luna.... How could I do it when I was drunk and she wasn't around. I...." I felt the tears start to form again. "I'm just weak."

I felt a hoof on my shoulder. When I looked up, the mare was smiling at me. "Ruby..... My name is Ruby. You are strong to admit you love a royal. She would talk about you all the time."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well don't tell anypony, but I was a royal servant for princess Luna until a couple weeks ago. She would come to me in the morning and fall asleep talking about you. I haven't seen her this happy in a long time, but for some reason she let go of all her servants. So here I am, meeting the stallion of her dreams."

I felt a smile on my face and I relaxed. Wow I was so scared to tell her that I love her, but the whole time she has loved me.

"Now you are going to feel a warm tingly feeling."

I looked at her and she was looking into my eyes. Her hooves were some where else. When I followed them up, they stopped at the top of the IV bag. The little vile was upside down and plugged into the clear cords. I felt a weird sensation in my right fore leg and then I felt warm. My eyelids started to drop as Ruby whispered into my ear.

"If you love her then do what ever it takes. She is a royal in distress and your her knight in shining arm...o...r......"

Darkness.

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I awaken to a quiet, dark room. I was still in a daze when I looked around. Everything was visible and in a light blue tint. I rolled over and it was there shooting into my room. The moon was shining in my room.

Does Celestia want me to suffer?

Right as I was about to turn over something caught my attention. There was dust or some kind of cloud heading my direction. I couldn't do anything so I just watched it pass right through the glass that separated me from the cool night air. The cloud was sparkling and it came to a rest on the floor. I wasn't sure what was about to happen but I didn't move a muscle. The cloud began to take a form. When it was finished, I couldn't believe my eyes. I had officially thought I was crazy or having a bad reaction to the drugs. She stood before me, and her eyes fell onto me. My heart stopped then quickly jumped into a rapid beat. I tried to sit up, but the pain made me clench and I closed my eyes and grunted in pain. She lifted her hoof and said in a whisper

"Don't move."

"I'm fine princess. It doesn't really hurt." Right as I said that a sharp pain came from my lower stomach. I let out a deep breath and tried to compensate with a weak smile.

Luna slowly walked toward my bed, frowning. "Lighting Bolt, you are a bad liar."

When she came to the edge of my bed I laid my eyes on her. She was still in that evil looking form. She broke my train of thought as she spoke in a hushed voice. "I can not be here long. My sister has trapped me on the moon and I have managed to break it for tonight."

Why would Celestia trap her own sister on the moon?...... I think it's because of that form of hers."

"Why would Celestia do that to you?" I asked without thinking. I could see something change in the way she looked at me. She looked angry and disgusted at the same time. She spoke with a stern tone this time.

"They all sleep through my night. Nopony except you would stay up and enjoy my rule over the land. I refused to lower the moon and my sister did this."

"Luna.... Why would you do something like this?" I asked.

"NOPONY CARED! I WAS NEVER LOVED LIKE MY SISTER!" She was practically yelling this time.

I could feel my stomach flutter and tears invaded my eyes. "Luna....."

She looked at me and was furious at something I said. "It's Nightmare Moon! MY NAME IS NIGHT MARE MOON NOW." she yelled. "Nopony will stop me."

I didn't know what I was thinking when I opened my mouth this time. My stomach clenched and my heart dropped to my flank. the words rolled off my tongue before I really thought about it. "Luna....... I Love you." I said awkwardly.

Luna looked down to meet me in a gaze. Had I really just said that to the princess who was in a fit of rage a couple seconds before those word left my mouth and flew in the air. I could feel my body shutter and I looked down.

I knew it. She doesn't like me back! Why did I say that?! She must want to end my pathetic life right here.

"You.....what?" She asked breaking the silence that haunted the room.

My mouth locked up and my brain was blank. I stopped breathing hoping that if I passed out everything would be okay.

Say something, stupid. There is no point trying to go back and if this happens I want to have no regrets!

I looked up into her blue eyes. I couldn't chicken out now. "Luna I love you. I can't find words to describe how deep my love for you goes. I felt it three years ago and ever since I have loved you." I said with all my courage. I raised my hoof and carefully put it on her face.

"I'm not...... Why now? Why tell me this now?" She asked as something developed at the bottom of her eyes.

"I never had the courage. I just never wanted to hear you say no or never talk to me again." My head dropped along with my hoof. "I loved just talking to you. Just being around you made me crazy. I never wanted to lose those feelings."

The pain started getting worse, but I lifted my head to see my princess. Her outer form started to crack. Piece by piece Nightmare Moon fell apart. Princess Luna was back and I felt so much better. She looked up and there were tears in her beautiful eyes. She closed them and spoke in a depressed tone.

"I'm sorry Lighting..... If... If I had known.... I would have..."

"I know Luna..... I know. Please don't cry. We all have to live with the decisions we make" I said while wiping some of the tears away. "I don't want to see my princess cry. Her eyes are to beautiful and peaceful to have tears in them."

She looked up and had a little smile on her face. When she opened her eyes we found our selves staring deeply at each other. Luna moved closer and closer until I could feel her breath against my face.

"I have never been this close to another pony before." She said in a quiet whisper. "Let alone a stallion."

Our eyes stayed locked, as if we were watching each others souls tell the story of our lives. We were face to face and if I were to be frozen in time or killed here I would be happy. She tilted her head slightly and then blinked.

I had already confessed my love now I needed to know if she felt the same. I rallied my courage and dropped back to see her whole face. "Luna.... Do you feel the same way?" I whispered.

She didn't move. My heart skipped a couple beats as she leaned in. She got close to my ear and whispered into it.

"I have never felt this way before. My heart is jumping beats and I feel..... I don't have words to describe this feeling."

I whispered back. "That's love. It's something you can't describe but you know when you feel it."

She dropped back and nodded quickly. "What is love?" She asked.

Had no one in Canterlot explained love to Luna? She seemed like she wanted to know so I just said it the way I felt. "Love is a feeling deep inside that nopony can live without. Love is feeling safe with somepony. Love is having laughs with somepony. Love is making memories with somepony. Love is...."

"What we've had these last five years?" She asked

I looked at Luna and noticed something. Even though her coat was dark blue, pools or red started getting more and more noticeable. The princess was blushing. "That's love. Being shy around a special somepony."

She cleared her throat and looked up at the ceiling. She was shy around me. How was it that the tables have turned? I was so scared that my shyness would break this amazing moment and make Luna leave me forever, when it turns out we are both shy.

"What do ponies in love...... Do?" She asked.

"Kiss."

Buck me! did I really say that? We just found out we love each other and I'm already saying we should kiss! Wait I bet Luna doesn't know what that is......... I should be fine.

Right as I started to relax Luna said the set of words that shook me to the bones. "The locking of the lips....... I would very much....... Like to try that. Could you.... Teach me?"

The thought of this action made my heart jump out of my chest. I knew I was blushing by this point. Was I supose to teach her what is was like to "lock lips"? I had never done it before, but I relaxed and put my hoof on hers.

I gently smiled and nodded. "First you look your special somepony in the eyes...... Move closer while closing your eyes and perk you lips out a little..... Then wait for the pony you love to gently touch his lips against yours."

The words were like a vodoo spell. They traveled up and then into both of our heads. Luna was looking into my eyes and I was looking into hers. She reached out for my other hoof and started moving closer. Our hooves met and our eyes started to close.

I want this to be my only first kiss. I want to be with Luna forever. I want to make her happy and I want to make her feel like shes the only pony in my world.

Suddenly I noticed something wrong. We hadn't made lip contact yet. Had one of us missed? Did she stop? Did I miss read her emotions? Finally the questions were to great. I slowly opened one of my eyes to see and empty room. Both of my eyes snapped open and my heart began to beat rapidly. It couldn't have been a dream, because I was still sitting up and my hooves were still extended in front of me. I looked to the window and the moon greeted me. I put my hooves on my head and felt pain and sadness envelop me and my will to hold a strong defense.

Where has my princess gone? Where is my lover?

I curled up and rested my head on the pillow. Tears began to fall and I just couldn't think straight. Luna was gone and there was nothing I could do.

My lover has been taken away from me and put somewhere so cold, and lonely. Her rage, anger, sadness, depression,and hate can build up there without her special somepony.

That night I had felt so alone. I was sure she felt the same way. When I finally fell a sleep my dreams were empty. I let out my crying and my sadness. It was the longest night in my life.