I decided to give the newly reunited couple some room when I heard them begin to softly moan. I left the room and saw that Sparx and Bell were gone. I looked for them for a while and eventually decided that they would go to the castle with Celestia and Flare. I went down to the cafeteria for lunch.
In the cafeteria, there were millions of sparkling heart designs. It reminded me of Hearts-and-Hooves Day. I looked over at one of the tables, which had a little counter thing that counted down the days to a certain day. And by the way that counter thing was decorated, I'd say that it was counting down to Hearts-and-Hooves Day. Which is tomorrow. It is also Pyro, Dawn and Sparx's birthday tomorrow. I left the cafeteria immediately after I was done with lunch to get Sparx, Pyro, Dawn and Twilight presents. Luckily for me, I brought as many bits as my in-saddlebag wallet could carry.
My first stop was a charm store that made charm necklaces, something Dawn has been collecting lately. I looked over the many charms (that were on sale, you would understand if you saw the regular prices) and picked out the one that represents her best. It looked like a star with a heart in it. Supposedly, It brought true love into your lie quicker than usual. My next stop was a novelty shop that Pinkie would have loved, if she hadn't gone goth while we were in the Shadow Ponies' complex. I shook the thought from my mind as I purchased some fake ice that warmed up a drink instead of cooled it down for Pyro. My last stop was a book store. I browsed the many shelves of books, looking for even one book Twilight didn't have. She had so many more books than when she first moved to Ponyville That we had a whole other room, or storage unit, or whatever just for books! Aha! I thought to myself as I found a book that had just come out titled: Are Human Real? By Lyra Heartstrings.
To get Sparx's present, I first have to get Princess Celestia's permission first. I thought to myself after putting the things I had bought into my saddlebag. I figured Celestia might be able to do with Bell as she did with Twilight, except for love more than friendship. She could stay with us (in Dawn's room) for a while, learn to live without the spoils of being royalty for a couple weeks. I went back to the hospital, as it was getting late and was time to get going home.
When I found my way back to the hospital (I had taken a "short-cut" through an ally way and ran into the meaner part of Canterlot, big mistake on their end) the guards were gone. I went to Flare's room, where there was almost no evidence of Flare (or Celestia) were ever there. The evidence was were they were obviously getting it on. Geez, these two must have been really excited to be with each other! I thought to myself, Well duh! They haven't seen each other in what? 2000 years? I argued with myself. I had been doing this for a while, without even noticing most of the time. So? I hadn't thought of that. You don't have to be so mean about it.
"Will you two just SHUT UP!" I yelled at myself. A mare poked her head into my room looking quite worried when she saw the room was empty of anypony but me.
"Are you alright, sir?" she asked, "A-are you looking for somebody?"
"Yes, I am. have you seen my son? His coat shines like gold. He seemed--"
"To be in love with Princess Bell?" she interrupted, "Yes, I have seen him. He and the other princesses left for the castle about an hour ago."
"Thank you miss..."
"Blitz," She must have seen my confused face, "oh, not bliss, Blitz. Well it is actually Midnight, but everypony calls me Blitz. Have I seen you before?" I was about to answer her when she said, "no, I don't think I have seen you before. Bye!" she scampered out of the hospital and toward the train station.
I made the long hike to the castle to retrieve Sparx and to get permission to have Bell live with us. On the way, I swear I saw Blitz, but it wasn't her. I didn't notice it then, but she didn't say "somepony" like all of the other ponies who live in Equestria. She was actually Dawn and Pyro and Sparx's age. How the hell did I know that? I just met the mare! When I finally reached the castle I heard the booing voice of Princess Luna call down as the guards blocked the entrance.
"Halt!" she called down from her high perch that overlooked al of Canterlot, "Who goes there?"
"Dusk Cloud of Ponyville," I called back, "I have come to retrieve my son, Golden Sparx, the young colt who came here with Celestia."
"Let him in."
The guards stepped aside, allowing me passage into the gigantic castle. I was greeted by Princess Luna when I got into the main hall.
"So you came here for Sparx," she said as we started to walk through the large rooms of the castle, "Yes, he should still be up in Celestial Bell's room. Last I checked they weren't doing anything... dirty."
"Tusen takk," I said. I had been researching the many languages of my world and I have been very fascinated with a language referred to as Norwegian. I saw her confused face so I explained it so she didn't think it meant something like your sexy, let's get into bed or something, "In a land from my world," (she knew I was from earth, but we just refer to it asmy world), "they speak a language called Norwegian. And that is Norwegian for thousand thanks."
"Dusk Cloud," she said while laughing, "you are the smartest earth pony from Earth I have ever met!"
"There's more?" I asked, suddenly being serious, "You've met others?"
She was silent for a long while, I had to trot to keep up with her brisk pace and staring off into nothingness. After a while she slowed down and said with her eyes closed, "Yes, I have. A couple thousand years before I was banished to the moon... He appeared. He had fallen from the sky, all bloody and broken. I took him in and took care of him until he got healthy.
"He told me he had nowhere to go, that he didn't even remember his own name. So I gave him one: Shadow Blade," she saw the surprised look on my face out of the corner of her eye and went on, "We fell in love not long after that. Oh how I loved him. I loved him so much that I didn't notice that he was filled with greed. He told me that I would be a much better ruler than Celestia would ever be. Thus hatched a plan to make me ruler of this wonderful land. What? Did you expect those dusty old legends to be exactly correct? This plan took thousands of years to plan out and find all of the wrinkles to smooth them out. He didn't age like other ponies. He aged like an alicorn. In fact, he was like an alicorn in every way. Minus the looks, of course," at this, she flips her mane.
"He found he could manipulate and travel through the shadows. He could also take over the minds of weak-minded ponies. He told me he could take over Flare and have her attack Celestia. I knew she was weak-minded, but I didn't know that her soul was weak too. I didn't know that her father had just passed, and I agreed. Those who have a weak soul and become possessed by the shadows instantly die the moment the shadow leaves their body. I never realized what a mistake I had made until I was too late. When Flare attacked Celestia, Celestia was only injured. Flare died instantly. He didn't care, he would just take over another pony and finish her off. This time he used me, and I too, had a weak soul. He was caught and arrested. He was sentenced to death, although the shadow never left me. It just waited, letting me do the rest.
"Filled with blind rage, I sought to take over Equestria by force. I failed and got banished to the moon where I became Nightmare Moon, The queen of what is known as the Shadow Ponies," she said the last two words in utter disgust.
We walked in silence for a long and came to a large door. There were voices coming fro the other side. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but one was defiantly Sparx.
"I have to go," Luna said, "thank you for listening to my constant babbling."
And with that, she left. I then turned my attention to the door. I cracked it open a smidge, just enough to see inside the room. Sparx was lying down on a bed with Celestial Bell lying on top of him, her front legs on his shoulders. They were sneaking kisses every now and then. I closed the door, hoping that I wouldn't be having grand-fillies anytime soon. I knocked on the door. Immediately following my knock was a gasp and a loud thud. I figured the thud was from Bell, because Sparx asked, "are you okay?"
The door eventually opened to reveal Sparx and Celestial Bell standing side by side. Their tails were intertwined and looked knotted. Ironically, they were.
"Hey Dad," Sparx said with a sheepish smile, "could you... uh... give us a hand?"
Bell looked at him curiously. But before she could ask I said, "Well Sparx as you know, I no longer have any. But I will gladly help you."
Sparx tried to hide a laugh and failed, producing a mixture of a snort and a chortle. She looked at us extremely confused and not understanding the joke. Sparx and I burst out laughing, if you had seen her face, you would laugh too. Her snout was a scrunched up, one of her eyes was amost completely closed the other looking frantically between us. I guess Sparx wanted her to understand because he started to explain.
"You see," he began, "my Dad, he isn't from Equestria. He isn't even from our world."
"What do you mean?" Bell asked as we walked into the main hall.
"I have to ask Celestia something. You two wait downstairs okay?" I said.
They continued down the stairs, Sparx still explaining to Bell. I continued down a long hallway. I even came across one of those helpful "you are here" signs. I came to a very large door, encrusted with so many jewels that Spike would have been in heaven and Rarity would go into a coma. The door was cracked open a little. I still can't believe I did this, I peeked in and saw Flare on top of Celestia. They weren't doing much (to Celestia's misfortune, she was looking extremely turned on and Flare was teasing her) other than kissing and grinding, well I don't count that as being much. I forced myself to look away from a scene that would come in only once and a lifetime and knock. Thing is, I never had the chance to knock because right as I was about to Celestia said, "Come on in Dusk."
I was stunned. How long had she known I was there? I thought to myself. Much worse, what is she going to do? She is gong to condemn me to death in a prison, I just know it. Oh, I am Sooo dead.
"Your highness," I said, "I was just about to ask you if--"
"Yes I know," Celestia interrupted, "on Hearts-and-Hooves day, that being tomorrow," she smiled at Flare and kissed her for several seconds, "Where was I? Oh, yes. I want you to come and get Celestial Bell and bring her with you to Ponyville. I want her to see what true love is, and to see what it is like to be out of the castle. I also want her to be treated like a normal pony."
Right then, I heard Bell scream, "WHAT?!" and appear in the room in a brilliant flash of yellow and the scent of the ocean, "What do you mean 'bring her to Ponyville'? I don't want to go to another city! I want to go to the countryside!"
"Ponyville is a small town on the countryside. It has a really awesome forest and lakes, and plains and everything," I said so that she didn't get the wrong image of Ponyville.
"And you'll be with Sparx," Flare said, "What about that?"
A huge grin spread across her face.
"Oh, and don't tell Sparx," I added, "you are his birthday present tomorrow."
She nodded and disappeared with a cool breeze. I looked at Celestia and Flare, who were making out. Flare looked at me and smiled mischievously and began to grind with Celestia. I needed to get out quickly. Like that would help, when I got out Flare sent an image of what they were doing. I can't tell you what they were doing just to keep this at a teen rating. All I can say is that it was very dirty, and very hot. After a while, the image disappeared after a while.
I got down to the main hall to see Sparx and Bell making out. I guess he finished explaining to her. I gave Sparx some time to say goodbye to Celestial Bell.
"Will I ever see you again?" Sparx asked after they were done kissing.
"I have a feeling we will be seeing each other again very soon," she said with a twinkle in her eyes. They kissed again and I grabbed Sparx to make sure he came with. I had to literally drag him from the castle all the way to the main part of the city before he willingly came with.
"I'm never going to see her again," Sparx sadly sulked, sinking slowly in his sagging seat, "she's just so," he paused, "so beautiful."
"I'm sure you will se her again," I said, using my acting skills that I gained from starring in a few movies to sound like I was trying to cheer him up but was failing terribly, "after all, she is your... What do you call it? Fillyfriend? And tomorrow is Hearts-and-hooves day, right?"
"Yeah, but what will I tell the other mares who want to go out with me? Do I tell them I am dating a princess/ Do I tell them I am dating Celestia's niece?" he said, his voice escalating with every word.
I looked around to see if anypony noticed Sparx's outburst. The only other two in the car were two unicorns. They looked around Morning's age. The one who was sitting directly behind Sparx had a white coat, like pure snow. Her mane was a mixture of light and darkish purple. She was staring at Sparx with her large, emerald colored eyes.
"Hey Belle, hey Lucky" I said referring to the other unicorn, Lucky Charm, Sweetie's fiancé. He had a rust-red mane and tail. His coat was a light green. He had a horseshoe with a four-leaf-clover on top of it for a cutie mark. Truth is, he is actually a Changeling. Only Twilight and I know about this, not even Sweetie knows. It is pretty sad actually, but we made a Pinkie Promise not to tell anypony (I don't even think Celestia knows either).
"Hey Dusk," Lucky said as Sweetie Belle ushered Sparx out of his seat and began to walk around him, studying him like when Rarity inspects a model, "long time, no see. Have you gotten any requests to be in any movies coming up? How's Twi?"
"She's good," I said, not paying attention to Sparx's stuttering as Sweetie lifted up his tail and looked through his mane, "And, yes I have. It is called: World War Z. It is about zombies killing off almost all pony kind. Then a journalist, me, is called upon to help eliminate the undead problem because he is the only ne who was obsessed with getting ready for something like that catastrophe."
"Ow, ow, OW!" Sparx yelled as Sweetie's magic aura, or whatever it was, peeled open his eye lids and mouth. I just ignored him and continued on with my conversation.
"Dusk, Dusk, Dusk. Why is it that you always get a lead role in something with zombies in it?" he said with a smirk on his face.
"I don't know. They are fascinating."
"Sorry, Dusk. I couldn't help myself. I was just trying to find out if he is a good fit for Bell," Sweetie Belle said, blushing a deep red making her cheeks look like flattish tomatoes.
"Well?" Sparx said, looking quite annoyed.
"Well, he is in great physical condition. But he could cut off of the hayburgers a little. He is good enough for her," her voice had changed a bit since she was a filly. She now sounded like Rarity, but with a higher pitched voice.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sparx asked.
Just then the conductors voice came on over the intercom, giving the same warnings as it did this morning. We gathered all our belongings and left as soon as the train pulled into the station.
"See ya Dusk, we should get together sometime. You, Morning and myself. Since we are all fathers, well I am going to be one. Sweetie still thinks that the tests are faulty," he said with a grin.
"Really?" I said, I lowered my voice so that Sparx and Belle couldn't hear, "Does she know about your... Um... Secret yet?"
The look in his eyes gave me the answer. He isn't proud of what his mother (Chrysalis) did and still won't stop apologizing for it. Actually, I heard from Scootaloo, it was Lucky who saved the CMC. Which started their relationship.
"Sorry, I know it is hard. But if she truly does love you, she will overlook that. I mean, Twilight overlooked the fact that I am a human, right?"
"Yeah, thanks," he said, cheering up a little, "I will tell her tonight."
"Okay, see ya Lucky. Have a good night."
We got home and had a late dinner. Sparx had school so he needed to get to bed. He had to get up early with Dawn and Pyro. That is when I am going to go to the train station with Morning to get Bell.
After he was in bed, I sat next to Twilight and said, "Sparx fell in love with an alicorn."
"Don't we all at some point in time?" she said with longing in her voice.
"Only if you count as one," I said and kissed her. I put my hoof to her mouth as she was about to talk, "I know you were one a few years back, but that was before I met you."
I explained the situation to Twilight and she was speechless. She stared at me with her beautiful purple eyes and said, "Are you serious? Sparx really attracted her? Not only that, but Celestia likes mares?"
"Yes," I answered calmly, "in fact, she should be doing it with Flare this very moment."
"Fine, I'll let her stay here. But if I end up as a Grand-mare at this age," (we are 24 human years old), "I am- no, you're- going to kill him."
I began to laugh, but when I saw her face I thought she was being serious. It turns out I'm not the only actor in this library house. She began laughing and I laughed along with her. We laughed for almost all night. Well, until Rarity (spending the night with Spike) came out and shushed us.
"I still don't see what he sees in her," Twilight said quietly after she left. I had to suppress my laugh as bst as I could. Which I failed at doing.
You never know when true love may strike. You never know when evil may strike. You never know that the one you think is the one, isn't who they say they are at all.
For those who don't know what World War Z is, it is a book (soon to be a movie) by Max Brooks. Here is the trailer. please comment on how awesome this movie looks.