I opened my eyes to a hospital room, and a fluffy bed, a single door and single window were of the room. I looked at Princess Luna asleep to my right near the window, laying on cot next to my bed tears still running down her cheeks, glistening a beautiful blue stream. I smiled watching her sleep.
So long had I wanted to watch her sleep, never before had I stayed in her bedroom as she slept, no matter how much I wanted to, it just wasn’t something I wanted to creep her out with, no this was much better, the wait so worth it. I had never imagine she would shed a single tear for me, let alone a stream of them, no princesses were higher than any pony, they never cried, or were wrong.
I looked down, I had a neck cast, my right side completely wrapped in a cast and my left bandaged, but both my front legs and my hind left leg was fine. Other than that I was perfectly fine, which that in itself was a miracle.
“So can’t believe I’m alive.” I said in an almost laugh. Almost dying sucked, and big time, I wouldn’t do that again anytime soon. I stared at her sleeping so sadly, it broke my heart as much as it mended it. I wanted nothing more than to wake her, but to lose her was so much crueler I could barely stand the thought.
“How long you been awake?” I looked at Night Jasper.
“Shhhh.” I said and he chuckled putting down flowered in a vase.
“She’ll be pissed you didn’t wake her.”
“I don’t want to yet.”
“Why not?”
“This way I won’t lose her, she’s going to kill me, and this way she won’t forget me the second she wakes up.” He paused.
“That wouldn’t happen, she flew you back herself crying and hysterical. We still don’t know what happen.”
“I accidentally ran into a tree trying to impress her.” I chuckled and so did he. “Anyway this was completely my fault for messing around. Princess Luna doesn’t need to explain anything to any-pony.” He smiled.
“I bet, anyway, it’s good to see you awake caption, we’ll be outside.” He went outside the hospital room and Onyx waved when the door opened. I looked back at Princess Luna, she was crying so much more now, and it was clear she was no long asleep.
“It’s a good thing you’re asleep,” I said smiling as tears ran down my face. “Or me telling you I love you would be awkward and really, really silly.” She stifled a giggle cry pretending badly at this point. I chuckled smiling. “I’m sorry.” She opened her blood shot eyes.
She jumped forward hugging me. I wrapped my one good front hoof around her not cared for the bone crunching pain. She let go moving to my left side noticing I was in pain.
“I’m so sorry.” She said with tears running down her face.
“Don’t you mean we?” She chuckled sobbing. “I should have let you catch me, then I wouldn’t have messed up.”
“I’m sorry, that has never happen before.”
“You’ve done it before?”
“It’s how you court a colt, or at least that’s what Shining Armor told me, he said no one got hurt normally.” I laughed making my side hurt. “I guess that’s funny.”
“That’s not how you court a colt at all, you go to dinner or a play or any number of things, you don’t chase them around scaring them half to death.”
“Oh.”
“Don’t worry though, even if you were choking me to death on my intestine I’m sure I would still be the happiest colt alive, Princess Luna.” She kissed me surprising me, but I moved closer kissing her back.
“Just Luna.” She said smiling.
A few days went by and Princess Luna, or Luna as I had started calling her would only leave for about an hour a day to raise and lower the moon. I ended up heading back to Canterlot being in the hospital in Ponyville.
I grunted using a wheel crutch for my hind leg which was broken. Luna had more than once teleported me back to bed and broke my wheel crutch trying to stop me, but a nice pony would come by every day to sell me a new one, or a new dozen. I just couldn’t stay in bed and I was still more of a war pony than any-pony else. Plus I had a bone to pick with Shining Armor, I owed him a broken leg and neck, maybe a few ribs as well.
“I told you this is the gala we’re talking about, everything always goes wrong, so till you tell me you have every possible entry covered don’t come back, and when you finish then double check again!” He shouted at a guard and I went over to him. He turned pausing.
“Hello Shining Armor.”
“Ah, Shadow, what are you doing out of bed?” He took a step back.
“You telling Luna that chasing a colt to court them was really smart, if it worked in killing me that is. Well I lived.” He backed up more. “And I’m pissed. Now before I rip out your bones and feed you your own marrow, tell me why you would do something like that?!” He stopped.
“Well I didn’t realize it would go so badly, I didn’t want you to get hurt.”
“HELLO! Second most powerful pony in existence, moves the freaking moon around the planet, how did you think it would possibly GO!?”
“Well after Cadance came back she was all sad, I just wanted to play a prank, I didn’t realize that it would go bad, maybe a few scrapes from running in the forest, but I figured she’d catch you.”
“I thought she was going to eat me.” I growled and his eyes went wide backing up. “She didn’t tell me it was a game, I ran for nearly four hours straight! If the running didn’t kill me I thought for sure she would!”
“Sorry, sorry I didn’t know.”
“You’re lucky that Luna is right behind me frowning or I would kill you where you stand!” I yelled as I appeared on my bed sighing.
“Give me it.” I handed her the crutch and she turn it to dust falling into the trashcan, she wasn’t happy. She went over me. “How many times must I.” I kissed her pulling her close to me and she smiled.
“I’m sorry, but I just had to tell him off.”
“I am sorry as well, I know bed is boring, but you must stand it for a while longer.”
“Are you going to the Gala?” She chuckled.
“I think my dance partner is a little left hoofed.” I chuckled.
“I’m sorry.”
“It isn’t your fault no matter how many time you say it.”
“And it wasn’t yours.” She kissed me, then she laid on my chest, only to start licking a bloody bandage for a few seconds realizing what she was doing looking at me her tongue on the bandage and I chuckled as she got up, exchanging my bandage with her magic.
“Better?”
“Yeah, thanks.” She laid back down and I brushed her mane with my magic. The night went on and she fell asleep next to me. It didn’t matter how many times I saw it, I loved her, and there was nothing which was going to make me change my mind. The gala came and went and she barely left my side for more than what seemed like a moment, even though the gala sounded like a blast. In some cases it literally sounded like someone had blown up. Including a very rather loud scream by Fluttershy which still confused me after the Gala.
“NO MONSTER I WILL NOT LET YOU PASS!” I heard Shining Armor shout, I looked outside and his shield was double bubbled. I got up not waking Luna going over to the window using a hidden wheel crutch I had stashed. Every guard pony was in combat armor ready for a fight.
“What in the world?” I asked seeing pink clouds raining brown water on the shield, I sniffed the air it was chocolate smelling with a mix of milk, it was raining chocolate milk, what in the world? I looked at Luna still asleep, it was best I not wake her.
I walked to the throne room and stopping seeing the shield around Canterlot fall. I looked at Princess Celestia a little nervous.
“Princess, what’s the matter.” She looked at me.
“Shadow, what are you doing here?! You need to be in bed.” She got off her throne and walked over to me. “Luna will be furious if.”
“Miss me?” I turned to a weird creature.
“Discord.” She said and I paused looking at him.
“Oh don’t be that way.” He walked over to us using his horns to walk with. “I mean is that any way to treat the new ruler of Equestria? After I beat your little champions I decided to come and see my favorite little princess. Now where is she?” He disappeared into the ground appearing behind us. I pushed Princess Celestia and he grabbed air going face first into my hoof’s metal shoe. He fell back wincing in pain.
“Why you little brat!” He merged into the ground again. I turned around frowning as he went around the wall.
“I don’t know how you got pass Shining Armor’s shield but you won’t hurt the Princesses on my watch.”
“Oh, Princesses, I didn’t know that Nightmare Moon was back from the moon. You hardly said anything Celestia my dear.”
“Nightmare moon?” I asked and I stopped appearing in front of me only to be hit over the head with my metal shoe sending him back into the ground.
“OW! That hurt! How did you know I was going to appear there?!”
“I can see you are chaos, there for you do not follow order, in which means your simple to understand, just because something is chaotic, doesn’t mean it doesn’t follow a certain path, I would kill you long before you were able to touch Princess Celestia.”
“Oh your no fun, come now what’s your name?”
“Wouldn’t you like to know?”
“Hmmm, you wouldn’t happen to be Twilight’s other brother would you.” I started to laugh.
“Oh please, you don’t think I would be Shining Armor’s bother would you? I really hate him!” I shouted and the ground shook making him fall from the ceiling hitting the ground rather hard in front of me.
“What, why can’t I fly?!”
“You have wings but can’t use air to fly, so I add more air and you can’t fly.” He stared at me stunned.
“You’re dangerous, and very much not fun! How is it that you have no doubt, or, oh I see, Celestia, I thought it taught you better than keeping dangerous pets! He’s just full of life draining magic, he could kill you if he wanted to.”
“Or you.” I said shooting a bolt into the ceiling making him fall to the ground on the other wall bleeding slightly.
“Very well this isn’t fun anymore, but it doesn’t change the fact that I have won! I will be back to collect my price after I am done with my other toys.” He disappeared causing a flash behind us.
“Thank you Shadow, I feared what may have happen had he found me alone.”
“You should thank Shining Armor for that victory, had he not shouted waking me up I would have not come to you aid till it was possibly too late.
“Your kindness has no bounds Shadow.”
“Well in the end I did get closer to Luna because of it, so in a way I am thankful, but I did not like that she spilled tears over me.
“Thank you, but you should get back before Luna founds out.” She looked around. “And I'll send you a few more wheel crutches.” I chuckled smiling and she smiled. “I am glad, and I am still sorry for what happen.”
“It’s fine, really, but next time I just tell you.”
“Thank you.” I went back to my room and sat onto my bed waking Luna. I chuckled a little and she frowned. I passed the wheel crutch to her and it turned to dust.
“Where do you keep getting them?!” She asked looking under the bed and I chuckled a little nervous.
While I had saved Princess Celestia from discord for an instant not even I could hold my hooves from stomping when I heard that Twilight Sparkle and her friends had claimed victory over discord trapping him once again, and saving Equiseta once again.